visionary Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/catalonia-separatists-lead-exit-polls-150927190807958.html Catalonia separatists win parliamentary elections A coalition of separatists who promised independence for the Spanish region of Catalonia have won the parliamentary elections. We have won," said Catalan nationalist leader president Artur Mas before a crowd of supporters yelling and waving flags at an open-air rally in Barcelona on Sunday. Official results with 80 percent of the votes counted indicated Mas's pro-independence alliance will hold an absolute majority in the regional parliament if it teams up with the radical left-wing, pro-independence groupCUP. With 83 percent of the votes counted, Mas's Together For Yes alliance had 63 seats and the CUP had 10 seats, according to figures published by the regional government. That gave them a joint total of 73 seats, above the 68 needed for an absolute majority in the 135-seat regional parliament. Mas has billed the vote as a referendum on whether the region should secede from Spain. Thousands of Catalans rally for independence from Spain Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull, reporting from Barcelona, said the result of the vote "could set the stage for a political and constitutional crisis in Spain, and possibly, beyond". "Confronting this popular will for independence is the government in Madrid. It says the Spanish constitution specifically precludes any unilateral moves to break up the union. It has successfully used the constitutional court to block such moves and will continue to do so," our correspondent said. Mas told a crowd of tens of thousands of supporters as he was wrapping up his election campaign on Friday that the vote would "lead to freedom". "Sunday is a special day for the future of Catalonia. It is an historic day," he said. For his part, Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, urged voters to return Catalonia to "normality". "There is a majority of Catalans who love their people and love their land, and do not want to see it amputated from Spain and from Europe," he told supporters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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