After Catalonian referendum took place on October 27 and the region proclaimed its independence, everybody though that the conflict between Catalonians and elected Spanish government will finish with blood on both sides. But it was resolved as quickly as was lawfully possible, unfortunately with the help of police, that was obstructing the people from coming into for voting, or dragging them out of polling stations.

After the referendum results were published and it turned out, that most of the people voted for independence, President of the Generalitat of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont declared independence of the region and quickly fled the country, realizing that he was facing jail time. Yesterday Catalonia held regional elections and it seems that history is repeating itself despite everything that Spanish government has put voting Catalonians through this October.

The results of the elections show, that Madrid’s policy is still not popular with Catalonians, as people once again voted for pro-independence parties that will now hold seats in the local government. The irony of the situation lies in the fact that the Spanish government has itself proposed that Catalonia hold a vote to the parliament. And the results turned out stunning – as for now 99% of the voted are counted and most of the people have given their votes for separatist parties. Puigdemont’s party Junts per Catalunya (Together for Catalonia) won 34 seats in the parliament and self-exiled politic held his winning speech from Brussels, saying, that, once again, Catalonia won, and Spain lost. Independency seeking parties are gaining 70 seats in the Catalonian parliament, and, with 135 seats total, they only needed 68, to oversee the parliament.

Although it seems like a clean win for the independence movement, things are not as simple. With total certainty one can say – there will be negotiations and the main problem is the seat of Catalonian president. It is still open, and a hard decision, who can take it, is to be made, especially, given, that this candidate will have to unite currently separated Spain and Catalonia and somehow calm down the rebellious region.