Tensions continue to rise as Catalans elect 19 jailed,exiled or bailed politicians, and separatists claim the judiciary is acting on Madrid’s ordersThe dramatic election in Catalonia on Thursday was supposed to draw a line under months of tension and division across the Spanish region over its future status. Instead it has opened a potentially damaging new division with suggestions that a fresh wave of arrests of Catalan nationalists may be unleashed.
Altogether, or 19 of the elected candidates are either in prison,on bail or in exile, and face charges that carry up to 30 years in prison. Now the supreme court judge Pablo Llarena plans to issue writs against a further 11 people linked with the deposed Catalan government for their piece in organising October’s referendum and fomenting secessionism.
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Source: guardian.co.uk