Looking at it with a little distance, one might believe that nothing changes after the Catalan regional elections on Sunday.
The separatists reiterate and even improve their majority in the autonomous Parliament.
Worse, for the defenders of the unity of Spain, the parties advocating secession gather for the first time a little over 50% of the votes and win two seats, to the point of controlling 74 regional deputies in a Parliament which includes them. 135. Junts (the party of ex-president Carles Puigdemont, heir to the center-right nationalist current) and Esquerra republicana de Catalunya (ERC, independentist left), the two brothers who are enemies of separatism, exchange places.
White cap passes in front of white cap.
Big deal.
And the anti-systems of the Candidatura Unitat Popular (CUP), the most intransigent, go from four elected in 2017 to nine today.
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Opposite, of course, the socialists of the PSC, led by Salvador Illa, the former Minister of Health of Pedro
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