Preliminary outcomes: Catalan separatists are more likely to lose their majority in parliament | EUROtoday
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Catalan separatists are more likely to lose their majority in parliament
A person casts his vote for the regional elections at a polling station
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In the Spanish area of Catalonia, separatist events won’t retain nearly all of parliamentary seats, in accordance with preliminary outcomes. After counting virtually all votes, you’d be seven seats wanting this end result.
BIn the regional elections in Catalonia, the separatist events misplaced their absolute majority in parliament. After virtually all votes had been counted, the 4 events supporting Catalonia's independence gained 61 seats. 68 can be needed.
The Socialists, led by former Health Minister Salvador Illa, gained 42 seats, eleven greater than in 2021, after they had already change into the strongest power. At that point, the separatists had been nonetheless in a position to kind a coalition underneath the management of Prime Minister Pere Aragonès.
Given the bulk this time, it’s questionable how shortly a brand new authorities will come into being. Illa additionally will depend on the help of different events. The result’s possible to present Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez a lift for the EU elections in June.
According to surveys, help for the separatists has waned
Catalan separatists have had a majority within the regional parliament for greater than a decade, however polls present that help for them has waned. Former Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont, who tried to secede Catalonia from Spain in an unlawful course of in 2017, was working from overseas and had introduced that he would return to Spain when the brand new parliament meets for the primary time. His Junts celebration grew to become the strongest of the separatist forces with 35 seats. Prime Minister Aragonès' ERC misplaced 13 seats and solely received 20.
Puigdemont remains to be needed in Spain for misuse of public funds within the 2017 secession try, however can hope for a controversial amnesty that has but to be authorised by the Spanish parliament in Madrid. In addition to Puigdemont, it might additionally legally exonerate a whole lot of different separatists, a few of whom are in jail. The amnesty is a part of Prime Minister Sánchez's efforts to defuse tensions in Catalonia.
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article251483296/Vorlaeufige-Ergebnisse-Katalanische-Separatisten-verlieren-wohl-Mehrheit-im-Parlament.html