Catalan crisis continues

The Spanish government’s heavy-handed and myopic strategy for dealing with its Catalan secession challenge has produced precisely the result it was designed to prevent, with a majority in the region’s new parliament won by the coalition of parties in favour of establishing a breakaway republic.

The Spanish government’s heavy-handed and myopic strategy for dealing with its Catalan secession challenge has produced precisely the result it was designed to prevent, with a majority in the region’s new parliament won by the coalition of parties in favour of establishing a breakaway republic.

Creating a situation in which the region’s deposed president was forced to fight the election while in exile in Belgium strengthened anti-Madrid sentiment. Back to square one.