Catalan election result: Independence boost in Catalonia election blow for Spain- who won?
Catalonia has endeavoured for 40 years to become independent from Spain. But it had its autonomy suspended for around seven months in 2017 by Madrid after a failed independence bid. Catalonia nationalists claim the region sends too much money for poorer parts of Spain, as a result of taxes being governed by Madrid and say changes to Spain’s autonomous status in 2010 undermined Catalan’s identity. A referendum vote held on October 1, 2017, was declared illegal by Spain’s Constitutional Court but revealed 90 percent of Catalan’s voters backed independence. However, the turnout for the w...
Source: express.co.uk