BARCELONA,
Spain — Spain’s effort to snuff out an independence drive in Catalonia
was dealt a significant blow on Thursday as secessionists narrowly won
an election called by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in hopes of calming
the country’s constitutional crisis.
After
Catalonia’s separatist lawmakers declared independence in late October,
Mr. Rajoy invoked emergency powers for the first time in Spain’s
democratic history. He ousted the Catalan government and imposed direct
rule on the formerly autonomous region.
Mr.
Rajoy then called new elections for the regional Parliament, hoping to
reshuffle the political deck and calculating that Catalan voters would
punish the secessionist leaders. Many are now being prosecuted for
sedition and rebellion and campaigned from prison or exile.
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