🇪🇸🇪🇸 For the first time since the 1980s, Catalonia does not have a separatist majority in its regional parliament, so the future coalition will have to follow ideological lines rather than separatist-unionist lines.

The PSC, pro-Spanish socialists, won the biggest share of votes, coming mostly from the ERC, the separatist socialist party.

To obtain a majority, the parties need 68 seats in the parliament and the only possible coalition would be PSC-ERC-Comuns, Comuns being a pro-Spanish communist party. The coalition would obtain exactly 68 seats.

The breakup of the Junts-ERC coalition in October 2022 forced the ERC to rely on support from the PSC and Comuns but this coalition fell apart too in March 2024 after failing to pass the yearly budget, causing the ERC to declare a snap election scheduled for May 12th.

After the Spanish Constitutional Crisis following the Catalan unilateral declaration of independence and its subsequent failure to materialize despite continued protests and clashes with the National Police Corps and the Spanish Civil Guard from 2018 to 2019, the Catalan independence movement lost traction. Add to it Spain's economic woes and the fact that the Junts-ERC ruled through part of the COVID-19 pandemic (2021-October 2022) which saw tourism and revenues decline, made sure to bury support for the Catalan independence movement which is at an all time low.

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⚡️ CNN Releases Leaked Photos of Israeli Torture Camp Sde Teiman in Negev Desert

The camp in southern Israel holds 100s of Palestinians arrested in Gaza – often without being charged.

The detainees are denied the right to see, to speak, and with severe restrictions on movement.

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🇷🇺 ❌ 🇺🇦 - Russian forces are at the closest 1.5 miles and about 4 miles on average from the main Ukrainian defensive lines in Kharkov Oblast.

▪️The Russian Army, should they be successful here and reach Lyptsi, will have bypassed the Ukrainian defensive line and be able to push east towards their other spearhead at Ohirtseve and expand their pocket of control while capturing the fortifications in the area.

▪️This is on top of directly threatening the city of Kharkiv by being able to bring up Russian artillery into the expanded pocket to shell the supply lines into the city.

▪️The Ukrainian defensive line is nowhere near complete and is just a small series of localized strong points in this sector.

🇬🇪🔥📹 — Video sent for us by a beloved Georgian subscriber shows the atmosphere that has been present outside the Parliament of the caucasian nation over the past days

➡️ Large amounts of the Pro-EU Georgian public have been protesting against the Law against Foreign Agents, which they dubbed as the "Russian Law", accusing the centrist government "Georgian Dream" party of trying to grab power for itself before the elections in the country

➡️ Protesters usually gather outside the Parliament, demanding the refusal of the law and the fall of the Georgian Government

➡️ The Government meanwhile accuses the protests of being funded by US Embassy in a way to undermine the sovereignty of Georgia, saying that it will not allow a Ukranization of Georgia to open a Second Front against Russia, which they perceive as a Military suicide.