(12 May 2024)
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La Roca del Vallès, Spain - 12 May 2024
1. Various of candidate to regional presidency of Catalonia for Catalan Socialist Party (PSC) Salvador Illa voting
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3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Salvador Illa, PSC candidate to presidency of the Spanish autonomous region of Catalonia:
"We’ve had a respectful campaign and public conversation. I think this is a first step in the right direction. And I want to highlight this today as I'm thankful for it. Lastly, I think today we are opening a new scenario in Catalonia. It’s what I hope will happen. What I feel is happening. This is what my intuition tells me today. We are starting a new decisive era in Catalonia."
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STORYLINE:
Catalonia is holding a regional election whose outcome will reverberate in Spain’s national politics.
The ballot on Sunday will be a test both for the strength of the separatist movement in the wealthy northeastern part of Spain and for the policies of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
Polling and last year's national election show that support for secession has shrunk somewhat since a failed breakaway bid by regional lawmakers in 2017.
Sánchez has spent precious political capital to pardon jailed separatists and push through a pending amnesty for hundreds more separatist in legal trouble.
He is hoping this will translate into his Socialists taking power in Barcelona.
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