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President of Spain's regional government of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont has accused the King of Spain of taking sides with the Madrid based government and sharing their opinions in the wake of the recent Catalan Independence referendum that was marred by Police violence.

At least 893 civilians and 431 police officers were injured in Sunday's clashes, according to regional and national authorities.

Puigdemont criticised the King of Spain of ignoring the 7.5 millions Catalans and adopting the government's position and policies which have been unfavourable to Catalonia.

"The king has adopted the (national) government's position and policies which have been disastrous with regard to Catalonia," Puigdemont said in a televised address.

"He is deliberately ignoring millions of Catalans," he added.

In his address, Puigdemont again urged the government to accept mediation in the political deadlock

"This moment calls for mediation. We have received various offers in the last hours and we will receive more. All of them know I am ready to start a mediation process," he said.

"I will repeat it as many times as necessary: dialogue and agreement are part of the political culture of our people. However, the state has not given any positive answer to those offers," he said.