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The Spanish parliament on Thursday passed a controversial amnesty for Catalan separatists after months of political wrangling in Madrid. The "Law for institutional, political and social normalization in Catalonia" was approved by 177 votes to 172 in the Congress of Deputies, Spain's lower chamber. It will come into force in the next few days after publication in the government gazette. The bill has seen heated debates and several votes in both houses of parliament since November, when Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez reached a deal with two separatist Catalan parties to support his re-election in ...
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Separatists suffered a historic defeat in Sunday's parliamentary elections in the Spanish region of Catalonia. For the first time since 1980, the pro-independence parties in the Spanish region combined missed out on an absolute majority of seats in the 135-seat regional parliament in Barcelona. The Socialists led by top candidate Salvador Illa won the election, though with 42 seats they are a long way from an absolute majority, according to provisional official results. However, Illa was in a position to be elected head of government with the support of other left-wing parties - and thus preve...
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Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has hailed the victory of the regional offshoot of his national Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in the parliamentary elections in the region of Catalonia. According to projections from votes counted, the big winner of Sunday's election was the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC), while the separatist parties were projected to have lost their parliamentary majority in the regional parliament. Sánchez congratulated PSC top candidate Salvador Illa "for this historic result achieved in Catalonia," in a message posted on social media platform X. "We sociali...
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According to projections from votes counted, the separatist parties have lost their parliamentary majority in the parliamentary elections in the Spanish region of Catalonia. After counting around 90% of the votes, the parties only won 62 of parliament's 135 seats, according to the projections. The big winner of Sunday's election was the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC), the regional offshoot of the national Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which gained nine seats and was by far the strongest force in parliament. Forecasts based on exit polls, which were published immediately after th...
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Catalonia's separatist parties look set to maintain their majority in the regional parliament, according to projections from Spanish state TV RTVE. Forecasts from late on Sunday showed the pro-independence parties are led this time by the liberal-conservative Together for Catalonia (Junts) party of former regional president Carles Puigdemont, who lives in exile. Although the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC) led by top candidate Salvador Illa, came in first, with 37 to 40 seats, it is likely to have missed out on an absolute majority of 68 lawmakers. According to RTVE, Junts has 33 to 36 seat...
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Catalonia's separatist parties look set to maintain their majority in the regional parliament, according to projections from Spanish state TV RTVE. Forecasts from late on Sunday showed the pro-independence parties are led this time by the liberal-conservative Together for Catalonia (Junts) party of former regional president Carles Puigdemont, who lives in exile. Although the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC) led by top candidate Salvador Illa came in first, with 37 to 40 seats, it is likely to have missed out on an absolute majority of 68 lawmakers.
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A total of 5.75 million voters were eligible to vote for a new parliament in the Spanish region of Catalonia on Sunday, with the separatist former incumbent, Carles Puigdemont, considered one of the favourites for head of the regional government. Voter turnout in the early afternoon was around 27%, around four percentage points higher than at the same time during the last election in 2021, which took place in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Puigdemont exploited the cancellation of suburban trains in Barcelona on election day due to cable theft to criticize the central government, which...
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The government of Catalonia has presented a concrete proposal for a new referendum on independence from Spain. "A vote is possible, it's just a question of political will," said regional president Pere Aragonès in Barcelona on Tuesday. A clear question would be put to voters, which could only be answered with a Yes or No, he said: "Do you want Catalonia to become an independent state?" Aragonès said that such a referendum could take place on the basis of Article 92 of the constitution, which allows "political decisions of particular importance" to be put to a referendum. This would have to be ...
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The government of Catalonia has presented a concrete proposal for a new referendum on independence from Spain. "A vote is possible, it's just a question of political will," said regional president Pere Aragonès in Barcelona on Tuesday. A clear question would be put to voters, which could only be answered with a Yes or No, he said: "Do you want Catalonia to become an independent state?" Aragonès said that such a referendum could take place on the basis of Article 92 of the constitution, which allows "political decisions of particular importance" to be put to a referendum. This would have to be ...
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Separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, who fled into exile in 2017, confirmed that he wants to run as the top candidate of his Junts party in the early regional elections in Catalonia on May 12. "I have decided to run for the Catalan parliament in the next election," he told party members in the small town of Elne in southern France on Thursday evening, not far from the border with his homeland. "The most important goal we have set ourselves is to make the independence process a success," Puigdemont asserted. The 61-year-old faces being arrested in Spain for his role in the illegal 2017 independ...
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