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Spain: After Elections, Catalonia Faces a New Year as Complicated as the Last

Dec 22, 2017 | 15:22 GMT

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When Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy dissolved the Catalan government in October and called for early regional elections, he was hoping that the separatist political parties would be defeated. Instead, the Dec. 21 elections once again resulted in pro-independence parties winning a majority of seats in the Catalan regional parliament. This means that, while Catalonia will likely not secede from Spain anytime soon, the Catalan crisis is far from over....

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