Written By:
Bill - Date published:
10:33 am, December 22nd, 2017 - 3 comments
Categories: democratic participation, elections, Europe, International, Politics -
Tags: autonomy, Catalonia, spain
Real time calculator on the vote in Catalonia.
Running commentary from “The Guardian“.
Looking good from the vantage of supporting greater autonomy đ
Here’s a breakdown of the parties from “The Guardian”
Junts per Catalunya (JuntsxCat, Together for Catalonia).
Esquerra RepĂșblicana Catalana (ERC, Catalan Republican Left).
Candidatura dâUnitat Popular (CUP, Popular Unity Candidacy)
Catalunya en ComĂș (Catalonia in Common)
Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC, Catalan Socialist party) – in favour of rule from Madrid
Partit Popular de Catalunya (PPC, Catalan Peopleâs party) – in favour of rule from Madrid
Ciutadans (Citizens party) – in favour of rule from Madrid
The first three parties on that list have a clear majority at the time of writing with 73.7% of the vote counted.
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Sounds like what happened in our election.
‘The unionist Citizens finished as the largest single party in parliament, but its 36 seats were not enough to form a majority government with other parties in favour of Catalonia remaining a part of Spain.’
Wonder if the Unionist Citizens will whinge and moan as much as the Nats here.
You know…we win because we are the biggest…….
The Citizens Party leader claimed they won, with 25% the largest party, but conceded forming a government would not be “easy” (very unlikely).
The pro-independence parties have a five seat majority. Given how evenly divided the country is I do not think it is fair to regard that as a mandate for independence.
Anyway, here is what will happen: Puigdemont and co. will grandstand, mischief make and insincerely negotiate with Madrid, and eventually try again to declare unilateral independence.
Rajoy will act out being the voice of exasperated reason, and will negotiate insincerely with the separatists in Barcelona whilst having a rock solid electoral mandate to prevent Catalonia leaving Spain. He’ll invoke 155 again and next time central rule will last a lot longer.
The real big story in Spain today though is El Gordo (literally “the fat man”) got drawn today. Apparently some people in Malaga got âŹ128 million.