Friday 22 December 2017

Catalonia gives a mandate for Independence parties


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.


Summary of the 21 December 2017 Parliament of Catalonia election results
CataloniaParliamentDiagram2017.svg
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
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

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

Stance on
independence
Parties and coalitions Referendum Unilateralism Support of direct rule
Yes Yes Together for Catalonia (JuntsxCat) Yes Question
Republican Left of Catalonia–Catalonia Yes (ERC–CatSí) Yes
Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) Yes Yes
No Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's)
Yes
Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE) Yes
People's Party (PP) Yes
Question Neutral Catalonia in Common–We Can (CatComú–Podem) Yes
It is unclear whether the  Pro-independence Parties  will have enough members to form a government given than a number of their members are in Spanish Jails or exile.

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.












1 comment:

Leigh Richards said...

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.