Spanish Socialists Lead Exit Poll in Catalan Regional Election
(Bloomberg) -- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist party is leading exit polls in a regional election in Catalonia in a vote that could complicate his ability to govern in Madrid.
The Socialists led by Salvador Illa are set to win 37 to 40 seats, according to the exit poll published by TV3, the Catalan public TV broadcaster. The separatist group Junts is set to win 33 to 36 seats, while ERC, the leftist pro-independence party that currently governs the region, is set to get 24 to 27 seats.
The winner would need 68 seats to get an absolute majority in the parliament, meaning a round of negotiations to form a coalition will be likely.
A win by the Socialists would represent an endorsement of Sanchez’s strategy in Catalonia of trying to tamp down the pro-separatist push by offering concessions, including amnesty for those involved in an illegal independence referendum in 2017.
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