Convergencia i Uni\u00f3 (CiU) has emerged victorious following the regional elections in Catalonia with 62 seats – previously it held 48 seats. Although this does not give them an overall majority in the regional government it does mean that they have many more seats than their nearest rivals the Catalan Socialist Party (PSC) with 28 seats \u2013 their worst results ever \u2013 and the PP, which despite obtaining the best results ever, still only has 18 seats in the Catalan parliament – four more than previously. <\/p>\n
One of the most surprising results following last nights elections was the results for Solidaritat Catala\u00f1a (SI), a new political party led by the former chairman of Barcelona football club, which won four seats. However, Esquerra Republicana was another loser in last nights elections holding onto just 10 seats \u2013previously it had 21 seats while ICV also obtained just 10 seats. Ciutadans gained 3 seats while Plataforma per Catalunya ended up with no representatives in the Catalan parliament. <\/p>\n
CiU obtained 38.43% of the votes compared to 31.52 previously while support for the PSC fell from 26.81% to 18.33%. The PP increased its share of the vote from 10.64% in 2006 to 12.34%. Support for ERC fell significantly from 14.06% in 2006 to just 7% in last night\u2019s elections. <\/p>\n
Following news of the CiU\u2019s results in last night\u2019s elections Artur Mas, the leader of CiU, said that he received the news of his party\u2019s victory with \u2018a mixture of humility, responsibility and hope\u2019. He added that \u2018we are proud of the victory but will not boast about it\u2019.<\/p>\n
The future president of the Catalan parliament said that the \u2018times to come would not be easy ones\u2019 and that he would need to act responsibly while conscious that he had received votes from people who had never voted for his party before. He also said that despite the hard times to come he hoped that the future of Catalonia would be based on its greatest assets – its \u2018level of humanity and its people\u2019. For this he asked for Catalonia to mobilize itself using all of its energy. Artur Mas said that \u2018we need everybody\u2019s help and emphasized that this meant everybody, political forces as well as non-political ones. <\/p>\n
Finally Mas asked the Catalan people to build a better country with more freedom, respect and prestige so that they could feel proud of Catalonia. He promised to fulfil his role as President of the Catalan regional government with the greatest spirit and commitment to service. <\/p>\n
Participation in yesterday\u2019s elections for the Catalan parliament rose from 56.04% in 2006 to 59.92% in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Convergencia i Uni\u00f3 (CiU) has emerged victorious following the regional elections in Catalonia with 62 seats – previously it held 48 seats. Although this does not give them an overall majority in the regional government it does mean that they have many more seats than their nearest rivals the Catalan Socialist Party (PSC) with 28 seats \u2013 their worst results ever \u2013 and the PP, which despite obtaining the best results ever, still only has 18 seats in the Catalan parliament – four more than previously. One of the most surprising results following last nights elections was the results for <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"yoast_head":"\n