Separatists Defend Majority in Catalan Election

Plaça de Sant Jaume Barcelona Spain
Early morning in Plaça de Sant Jaume, Barcelona, seat of the Catalan regional government (iStock)
  • Separatists defended their majority in Catalonia’s regional parliament on Thursday.
  • Parties that want to secede from Spain won seventy of the 135 seats against 57 for unionists.
  • The remaining eight seats went to Catalonia in Common, a left-wing party that supports self-determination but opposes independence.

Results

68 seats needed for a majority