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Stalemate continues after latest Catalan elections
Elections have solved nothing with the region still split down the middle on independence, writes EMILE SCHEPERS
Spain Jan 4 2018
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ON December 21, the Autonomous Region of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain held new parliamentary elections to replace the legislature which had been deposed earlier by decree of the right-wing government in Madrid.
However, the elections resolved nothing, with the electorate still split on the issue of independence from Spain.
The election was scheduled after the Spanish central government in Madrid invoked Article 155 of the 1978 constitution, thereby dissolving the Generalitat, the autonomous regional government of Catalonia, and deposing its leadership.
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