5th October 2025

Junts per Catalunya (JxCat)

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Former mayor Xavier Trias wins in Barcelona, but can he become mayor again?

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Trias per Barcelona, the Catalan pro-independence group of former Barcelona mayor, Xavier Trias, won 11 seats in the city’s council elections on Sunday, ahead of the Catalan Socialists (PSC)
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Catalan MEP Clara Ponsatí released after being detained on returning to Spain

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UPDATED – 29 March at 8am Clara Ponsatí was finally released on Tuesday night at around 11pm, after declaring before a Barcelona judge following her
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Supreme Court maintains public office ban for 4 Catalan pro-independence leaders

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Four Catalan pro-independence leaders will remain banned from holding public office, Spain’s Supreme Court said on Monday, despite a legal reform pushed through by Spain’s
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Spanish MPs vote to reform penal code amid constitutional controversy

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Spanish MPs voted on Thursday in favour of a controversial criminal code reform that changes the crime of sedition to ‘aggravated public disorder’, in a move
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JxCat party vote to quit Catalan coalition government led by ERC

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Catalonia has found itself in a situation of political uncertainty again after the Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) party decided to pull out of the pro-independence
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Amid political in-fighting, Catalan independence takes to the streets again for ‘La Diada’

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While the local police in Barcelona calculated that 150,000 people attended a mass pro-independence rally in the city on Sunday, coinciding with ‘La Diada’ (the
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UN human rights committee says Spain at fault for suspension of Catalan MPs

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Independent human rights experts working with the United Nations have said that Spain violated the political rights of members of the Catalan government and parliament by
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Spain rules Franco regime ‘illegal’ with new ‘Democratic Memory Law’

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The Spanish Congress has approved a new ‘Democratic Memory Law’ that declares illegal the regime of former dictator Francisco Franco and makes the central government
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EU court restores immunity for Puigdemont, Ponsatí & Comín

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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has decided to provisionally restore the parliamentary immunity of three Catalan pro-independence MEPs who fled Spain fearing arrest over