Catalan government loses majority in separatist split

The split between ERC and Junts per Cat has become irreconcilable

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Monday, 15 October 2018, 14:31

Despite reassurances last Friday from separatist Catalan parties that their ruling coalition was intact, by Monday the split between ERC and Junts per Cat had become irreconcilable.

In the Catalan parliament on Tuesday, the nationalist-controlled regional government lost a series of votes after lawyers said that the five votes of its MPs who are being investigated over last year's illegal declaration of independence, and who are absent from the regional chamber, couldn't continue to be counted.

Those MPs refuse to give up their seats to allow replacement MPs to take their place, which ERC wants.

The loss of the five votes pushes the separatist parties into a minority.

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