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Catalan separatists cheer election as Rajoy handed drubbing

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s People’s Party takes a hammering, losing eight of its 11 lawmakers.

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22.12.2017

Pro-independence parties won back control of Catalonia in Thursday’s regional election as Spanish efforts to contain the separatist movement earned Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy a historic defeat.

The three separatist groups claimed 70 seats in the 135-strong assembly to restore a majority they lost in October when Rajoy used Article 155 of the constitution to oust the rebel administration before it could put a declaration of independence into effect.