Separatists lose Catalan majority as Spain Socialists surge
Led by Salvador Illa, Spain's health minister during the pandemic, the Catalan Socialist party won 42 of the regional parliament's 135 seats. Photo: AFP
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's Socialists won a clear victory in Sunday's Catalan regional election, in which Carles Puigdemont and fellow separatists lost their majority after 10 years in power. The vote came six years after Puigdemont led a botched 2017 independence bid that triggered Spain's worst political crisis in decades. Led by Salvador Illa,...