The results from Spain’s general election left neither the left nor right bloc with an easy path to form a government
Spain faces lengthy negotiations or fresh electionExiled Catalan independence leader signals tough stance
The centre-right People's Party and the far-right Vox won the most seats in parliament with a combined 169 - short of the 176 seats needed for a majority and confoundingThe ruling Socialists and far-left Sumar won 153 but have more possibilities for negotiating support from small Basque and Catalan separatist parties, as they did following 2019's election.
"The state knows that if it wants to negotiate with us, there are two issues that are fundamental and generate consensus in Catalonia which are an amnesty and self-determination," he said in an interview with local radio station RAC 1. The Catalans are likely to play hardball in any negotiations after the election laid bare that a rapprochement with Madrid has not worked in their favour, said Joan Esculies, a writer and analyst on Catalan politics.
Going into the election, the PP had looked set to forge an alliance with Vox to govern - an outcome that would have brought hardline nationalists into government for the first time since the end of the Franco dictatorship and Spain's return to democracy in the 1970s.o nonetheless claimed victory and urged other parties not to block his bid to form a government for the sake of stability in Spain.
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