The ‘no’ win by the minimum in a referendum in Catalonia – Investing.com Spain

MADRID (Reuters) – The rejection of independence has regained ground in Catalonia, where the forces separatists have suffered a setback in the last few months and today would have endangered its absolute majority in the Parliament, according to a poll official was circulated on Friday.

To the question “do you Want Catalonia to become an independent State?”, a 45.1 per cent of the respondents said no, compared to 44.9 per cent who opted for “yes”, a result that reverses the data in the previous barometer, where a 47.7 per cent wanted the region became independent from Spain in front of 42.4 percent, which is not what I wanted.

The survey, conducted by the Center for Opinion Studies of the Generalitat, showed that 7 per cent of the catalans did not know what I would vote in a referendum for sovereignty, a vote that the Catalan government wants to hold by September of 2017. A 2.9 per cent preferred not to disclose his opinion.

In the first survey conducted after the announcement of the referendum, 38.9 percent of participants thought that Catalonia should be an independent State, while 23.2 percent is decantaba by a state within Spain’s federal and 24 percent was in favour of that it will remain an autonomous community.

After years in which it has been stopped in court any attempt of a referendum, Catalonia has become for the president of the Spanish Government, Mariano Rajoy, in the main business of the newly inaugurated legislature, in which his number two, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, will be in charge of negotiating the territorial issue.

In the parliamentary spectrum Catalan, the absolute majority achieved in 2015 by the platform to the sovereignty of Junts pel Itself, and the CUP would not be so clear in the case held today a regional elections, according to a survey that collects a setback, especially of the independence of the CUP (from 10 to 6-8 seats).

In a hypothetical election, the formation that more would grow would be Catalunya Yes, that is Pot, the wing Catalan Can, I’d go from 11 members to 19 or 20 in a Parliament in which Citizens would follow as the second force in the Parliament. The Catalan socialists would lose between one and two seats of the 16 current.

The survey of 1,500 people was conducted between 17 October and 3 November, to coincide with the dates of the investiture of Rajoy as president, and has a margin of error of 2,53.

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