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Let's be clear here. Much of the whole independence movement in Catalonia was because of PP being in power. Now they are out of power and the independence movement will die down somewhat.Spain's new socialist government isn't going to be any more accommodating to Catalonian secessionists.
Evidently the new government in Madrid is no more inclined to dismemberment than its predecessor, and while this doesn't surprise me, I can appreciate the discomfiture on the left which may have thought socialists would be more sensitive than conservatives to supposedly democratic aspirations.
The new foreign minister, a Catalonian, in his first statements upon assuming office has emphasized two transcendental points; he sees the separatist movement as the "gravest" threat and he will work in support of rather than in opposition to the EU.
The issue has always been the fact that PP are a party linked to Franco. The hatred towards Franco and anyone linked to him in places like Catalonia is big.
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