Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s gamble that the snap election he called would help return Catalonia, one of Spain’s richest regions, to ‘normality and legality’ did not pay off, as the three pro-independence parties again won a narrow majority in the Catalan parliament on under 50% of the vote and a record turnout of 82%.
https://blog.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/catalonia-secessionist-parties-regain-control-of-the-regions-parliament/