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Puigdemont said pro-independence parties had good ‘options’ for forming a regional government – Copyright AFP\/File Daniel Hayduk<\/small><\/em><\/p>\nCatalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont said Monday he would seek to form a pro-independence minority government in the Spanish region despite a weekend electoral setback.<\/p>\n
Spain\u2019s governing Socialist Party won a regional election in Catalonia on Sunday, snatching away separatist parties\u2019 majority.<\/p>\n
But Puigdemont insisted he was still in a position to rally pro-independence groups and form a regional government.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can assemble a coherent majority,\u201d added Puigdemont, who lives abroad in exile to escape trial for leading a botched independence bid in 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot an absolute one, but a coherent one, bigger than the one the Socialist Party candidate can gather,\u201d added Puigdemont, leader of the centre-right hardline separatist party JxCat.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going to concentrate on that from now on.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he envisaged standing as a candidate for leader in a vote in the new Catalan regional parliament.<\/p>\n
The Socialists won 42 of the regional parliament\u2019s 135 seats on Sunday \u2014 nine more than in the previous election in 2021, but short of an absolute majority.<\/p>\n
Analysts say the Socialists could ally with the radical left Comuns Sumar, which won six seats, and moderate independence party ERC, which won 20.<\/p>\n
JxCat, ERC and the smaller hard-left CUP secured 59 seats between them, compared with 74 last time.<\/p>\n
Puigdemont insisted the independence parties had \u201cpotentially more options\u201d for winning office.<\/p>\n
He said he had been in touch with ERC to discuss creating \u201ca pro-sovereignty government\u201d.<\/p>\n
Puigdemont spoke in Argeles-sur-Mer, a few kilometres (miles) from the Spanish border.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the vote, he had pledged to retire from politics if he lost.<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s result offered a boost to Spain\u2019s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.<\/p>\n
He had wanted to show that his policy of defusing tensions triggered by the 2017 crisis had worked, reducing pro-independence sentiment in the wealthy northeastern region of eight million people.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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