As Spain heads to the polls, exiled politician Carles Puigdemont continues to plot Catalan independence from afar, by pwaldieGLOBE
The referendum saw 92 per cent of voters back independence, but many of those opposed to sovereignty boycotted the poll and only 43 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots.The issue of how to deal with Catalan separatists is now at the forefront of the national election campaign and it has unleashed a fierce debate about Spain’s future. It has also fuelled the rise of Vox, a populist right-wing party that has vowed to crush Catalan sovereignty.
Mr. Puigdemont won’t say if his party will back a Socialist coalition if Mr. Sanchez wins the most seats. Catalan’s nationalist parties were instrumental in bringing Mr. Sanchez to power last year by supporting the Socialist coalition when it ousted the People’s Party government. But they fell out in a dispute about the budget and the nationalists brought down Mr. Sanchez’s government in February, prompting Sunday’s election.
Mr. Puigdemont rejected suggestions that his influence is waning or that the independence movement is in trouble. “Since the referendum, we can see that support for independence has increased and is more solid, even though there is division,” he said .
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