| Formation | September 2017 |
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| Type | Civil Organisation |
| Purpose | Defending the mandate of 2017 Catalan referendum and the Catalan Independence Movement as a whole. |
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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.[1]