Socialists Win Catalan Ballot But Region Heads for Stalemate
- Spain’s wealthy region of Catalonia held an election Sunday
- Rift in pro-independence parties grows bigger as ERC falls
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist party won a local election in Catalonia for the first time in an apparent vindication of his strategy to grant separatists amnesty over an illegal independence referendum.
But that victory complicates the balance of power not only in Catalonia but also Madrid, where Sanchez relies on both major pro-independence parties to push through national legislation.