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- 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.