- The separatist parties have lost their parliamentary majority in the early parliamentary elections in the Spanish region of Catalonia.
- After almost all votes were counted, the parties only got 61 of the 135 parliamentary seats, according to an extrapolation by the Spanish public broadcaster RTVE.
- The big winner in Sunday’s election was the Socialist Party, which gained nine seats and became by far the strongest force.
According to RTVE projections, the Socialists with their top candidate Salvador Illa were able to improve from 33 to 41 seats. Former separatist Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont, who ran again, won 35 seats with his Junts party, three more than in the previous election in 2021.
The previous, also separatist, head of government Pere Aragonès with his left-wing party ERC fell from 33 seats to just 20. Spain’s largest opposition party, the conservative PP, which has traditionally had a difficult time in Catalonia, improved significantly by eleven seats to now 14. The right-wing populist Vox maintained its result with eleven seats.
Partido Popular wins eleven seats
The left-wing alternative alliance Comuns-Sumar, which governs in Madrid together with the Socialists, got six seats (-2), the left-wing separatist CUP fell to four seats (-5) and the new, far-right separatist Alianca Catalana sent two representatives to the parliament in Barcelona.
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A supporter of Pudigdemont wears the peaked cap with an “Estelada”, the flag of the Catalan separatists (Junts Per Catalunya).
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Spain’s largest opposition party, the conservative PP, which has traditionally had a difficult time in Catalonia, improved by eleven seats to 14. The right-wing populist Vox maintained its result with eleven seats. The left-wing alternative alliance Comuns-Sumar, which governs in Madrid together with the Socialists, got six seats (-2), the left-wing separatist CUP fell to four seats (-5) and the new, far-right separatist Alianca Catalana sent two representatives to the parliament in Barcelona.