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Separatists Defend Majority in Catalan Election

But the independence crisis has split Catalonia down the middle.

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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 on Thursday.
  • Parties that want to secede from Spain won seventy of the 135 seats in the regional parliament 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