ASSESSMENTS

Catalan Separatism After COVID-19

Apr 10, 2020 | 11:00 GMT

A traffic officer enforces a confinement order in Barcelona on April 6, 2020.

A traffic officer enforces a confinement order in Barcelona on April 6, 2020.

(Paco Freire/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Highlights

  • Catalan pro-independence groups are keeping their protest actions online for now due to the ongoing health crisis, but that doesn't mean that they've gone away.
  • Catalonia is likely to hold elections in the second half of 2020 or in early 2021, which will stir up tensions within the pro-independence movement and deepen its divisions.
  • In the long run, economic fallout from the crisis, such as high unemployment, will strengthen separatist groups' calls for independence from Madrid.

The Catalan independence movement is quiet for now, but likely to exploit the pandemic in the long run....

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