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Luis Moreno on the Catalonia Vote

Luis Moreno writes that Catalonia’s December 21 election produced an indecisive result. Although separatist parties won 70 seats in Catalonia’s 135-member parliament, the non-secessionist parties got 52.5% of the popular vote. Key questions now facing the region include the kind of coalition that will emerge in the parliament; whether Spain will undertake constitutional reform, and whether polarization around independence will continue to cut across the left-right ideological divide. Read more here.