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| Catalan separatists projected to win snap election |
| 2017-12-22 |
| [Al Jazeera] Exit polls following Catalonia's snap election show pro-independence parties maintaining their majority in the regional parliament, setting up a conflict with Madrid. Catalonia's parliament has 135 seats, requiring 68 seats for a majority. Secessionist parties are projected to win between 67 and 71 seats. The results are not in line with the desires of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who called the snap election in October. Unionist parties are projected to win a maximum of 62 seats. No official results have yet been published and it was unclear if final results would match the poll published by La Vanguardia newspaper as voting stations closed. |
| Posted by:Fred |