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Catalan leader Puigdemont says 'Catalan republic' won over Spanish state

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Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont on Friday (22 December) said the absolute majority won by separatists in a regional election on Thursday was a victory of the “Catalan republic” over the Spanish state.

Puigdemont was speaking from Brussels, where he went into self-imposed exile after his government was sacked by Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in October when it declared independence from Spain.

Time and again, European leaders have turned to voters in recent years to resolve their thorny domestic dilemmas.

And time and again, it has backfired. Greece’s Alexis Tsipras tried it in 2015. Britain’s David Cameron and Italy’s Matteo Renzi tried it in 2016. And now Spain’s Mariano Rajoy has done it by triggering a vote in Catalonia that produced the result he didn’t want.

Rajoy's "silent majority" of unionists failed to materialize in an election in the wealthy Spanish region on Thursday despite a record high turnout of over 83 percent.

The result has pushed down the euro, pushed up Spanish bond yields and seems likely to weigh on European stocks.

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