The Spanish prime minister hailed the result as a vindication of his approach, but the region’s politics remain polarised
Salvador Illa, socialist candidate for the Catalan elections, center, and Lluisa Moret, president of Barcelona provincial council, right, outside the PSC headquarters in Barcelona, on Sunday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's Socialist party won the most seats in the local election in Catalonia.
Putting together a viable minority government to replace the separatists who have ruled for 14 years, including through that referendum on secession in 2017, will involve tense and difficult negotiations. It is likely to depend on support from outside the government from Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya , the pragmatic and least radical brand of separatists. The ERC, who were the big losers in the elections, led the incumbent minority pro-independence government.
Impasse choreographer Mufutau Yusuf: ‘I can’t have fixed ideas. Difference often opens up into something completely better than I imagined’ In a measure of the polarisation that continues to mark Catalan politics, , the conservative national opposition, the People’s Party did well, increasing its seats from three to 15, while far-right Vox maintained its 11 seats.Europe's Nature Restoration Law is a vital measure which needs to be revivedI visited Singapore to see why it is ranked as the top education system in the world.
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