Catalan pro-independence parties have held their absolute majority in snap regional elections, dealing a severe blow to the Spanish government, which had called the polls in the hope of heading off the secessionist push.
The three Pro-Independence parties won a total of 70 seats in the 135-seat regional parliament even though the centre-right, pro-unionist Citizens party was the single biggest winner, taking 37 seats.
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| Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | ||
| Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs) | 1,101,574 | 25.36 | +7.46 | 37 | +12 | |
| Together for Catalonia (JuntsxCat)1 | 940,414 | 21.65 | +1.85 | 34 | +3 | |
| Republican Left of Catalonia–Catalonia Yes (ERC–CatSí)1 | 929,061 | 21.39 | +4.79 | 32 | +6 | |
| Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE) | 602,616 | 13.88 | +1.14 | 17 | +1 | |
| Catalonia in Common–We Can (CatComú–Podem)2 | 323,460 | 7.45 | –1.49 | 8 | –3 | |
| Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) | 193,285 | 4.45 | –3.76 | 4 | –6 | |
| People's Party (PP) | 184,005 | 4.24 | –4.25 | 3 | –8 | |
| [show]Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote | 49,183 | 1.13 | — | 0 | –5 | |
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| Blank ballots | 19,375 | 0.44 | –0.09 | |||
| Total | 4,342,973 | 100.00 | 135 | ±0 | ||
The Anti-independent Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs) may have emerged as the largest party but since they ran a "now we will vote slogan" do they accept that the people have given a Mandate fir Independence?
Or at the very least another "Legal" referendum?
Stance on independence issues
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Yes
The Madrid governing People's Party lost heavily and have absolutely no Mandate in Catalonia.
If the ball is in any ones court it is the European Union who must surely recognise the rights of Catalonia to self determination or accept that they support Madrid and its increasing Francoist authoritarian government that was decisively rejected in a election they called.
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Clearly rajoy's position is untenable. His tactic of firstly physically battering indy voters, arresting their leaders and then calling a snap election has backfired disastrously for him. It's hard to see how he can survive this. Meanwhile the indy movement in catalonia remains as strong as it ever was, tho we have to recognise that overall the levels of support for and against indy remains fairly evenly split.
Youre right glyn the EU are going to have to change their stance and stop acting as a cheerleader for madrid on this issue. Catalonia's indy movement is here to stay - and madrid and brussels have to come to terms with this fact.
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