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Catalan Separatism After COVID-19
Apr 10, 2020 | 11:00 GMT
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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.
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