Committees for the Defense of the Referendum
Committees for the Defense of the Referendum ( CDR ) , or Referendum Defense Committees , are the neighborhood groups set up in Catalonia prior to the 2017 Catalan independence referendum in the wake of the 2017 Spanish constitutional crisis to carry out the referendum swiftly in spite of the Spanish government's imposition of a ban on the unilateral referendum . 
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