Global Information2021 Catalan regional election information
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| Registered | 5,624,067  1.3% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 2,884,845 (51.3%) 27.8 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2021 Catalan regional election was held on Sunday, 14 February 2021, to elect the 13th/14th[1] Parliament of the autonomous community of Catalonia.[2][3] All 135 seats in the Parliament were up for election.
After the 2017 election, pro-Catalan independence parties secured a parliamentary majority, electing Quim Torra as new Catalan president after attempts to have Carles Puigdemont and Jordi Turull elected to the office were foiled by Spanish courts. However, in December 2019 Torra was disqualified by the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) from holding any elected office and/or from exercising government powers for disobeying the Central Electoral Commission (JEC)'s rulings in the April 2019 Spanish general election campaign.[4][5] Torra remained as president as he appealed the ruling, but was stripped from his status as legislator in the Catalan parliament.[6][7] A snap election loomed over the horizon for several months as Torra announced his will to call one after the court rulings,[8] but the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain stalled these plans.[9] On 28 September 2020, the TSJC's ruling was upheld by the Supreme Court of Spain, finally disqualifying Torra from office and paving the way for a regional election to be called for early 2021.[10]
Puigdemont announced his intention to lead the lists of his new Together for Catalonia (JxCat) party into the election, with former regional Culture minister Laura Borràs being selected as presidential candidate.[11][12] Concurrently, in a move widely seen as Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's personal bet for his party to obtain a strong performance in the election,[13][14] the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) selected health minister Salvador Illa, who had been at the helm of the Spanish government's response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, as its leading candidate.[15]
Pro-independence parties gained a majority of the votes for the first time in an election and increased their parliamentary majority, though they lost over 600,000 votes from the previous elections amidst the lowest voter turnout in history, at just 51.3%.[16][17] The PSC under Salvador Illa emerged as the most voted political party while tying in seats as the largest parliamentary force for the first time in history. The far-right Vox placed fourth and entered Parliament for first time, winning 11 seats, to the collapse of both Citizens (which placed first in the previous election and fell to seventh, losing 30 seats) and the People's Party (which worsened its 2017 result, already its worst in history). The Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT), the successor of the once-dominant Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC), lost parliamentary representation after they failed to clear the electoral threshold. PDeCAT's extraparliamentary performance partially overturned the record for wasted votes (in vote share, but not raw votes) that had been set by CDC's erstwhile coalition partner, the Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC), in 2015.[18][19][20]
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- ^ Regué, Júlia (2 June 2021). "El Parlament acuerda pasar de la 13ª legislatura a la 14ª". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
- ^ "Torrent anuncia que las elecciones catalanas serán el 14 de febrero". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 2 October 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ "¿Cuándo serán las elecciones catalanas? Fecha y calendario electoral". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 16 October 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
- ^ "Quim Torra, condenado a un año y medio de inhabilitación por negarse a retirar los lazos amarillos". El País (in Spanish). 19 December 2019. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ "El TSJC condena a Quim Torra a un año y medio de inhabilitación por no retirar la pancarta de Palau". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 19 December 2019. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ "Torrent retira el escaño a Torra y la legislatura queda vista para sentencia". El Mundo (in Spanish). 27 January 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ "El veto a Torra en el Parlament fractura el Govern". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 27 January 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ "Torra anuncia elecciones tras los presupuestos y carga contra ERC". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 29 January 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ Piñol, Ángels; Baquero, Camilo Sixto (1 May 2020). "La pandemia congela los planes de los partidos y la agenda electoral en Cataluña". El País (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
- ^ Solé Altimira, Oriol; Puente, Arturo (28 September 2020). "El calendario tras la inhabilitación de Torra: elecciones a partir de febrero y gestión de la pandemia sin nuevos presupuestos". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 September 2020.
- ^ Barrena, Xabi (29 November 2020). "Borràs tumba a Calvet e inicia la cohabitación con Puigdemont". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 November 2020.
- ^ "Puigdemont encabezará la lista de JxCat en las elecciones catalanas". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Europa Press. 23 December 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
- ^ Pardo Torregrosa, Iñaki; Merino, Juan Carlos (31 December 2020). "Illa sustituye a Iceta para impulsar un vuelco en Catalunya tras el 14-F". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Madrid/Barcelona. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
- ^ Ríos, Pere (2 January 2021). "Illa sacude la campaña electoral catalana". El País (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ Ruiz Sierra, Juan; Ubieto, Gabriel (30 December 2020). "Iceta cede a Illa la candidatura del PSC a la Generalitat". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
- ^ Caballero, Álvaro (14 February 2021). "El independentismo aumenta distancia con el constitucionalismo y da por superado el 50% de los votos". RTVE (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ^ Pozo García, Cristina (15 February 2021). "La participación en Cataluña se hunde hasta el 53,6 %, el dato más bajo de su historia". RTVE (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ^ "'Sorpassos', fragmentación y votos perdidos: ocho claves de los resultados de las elecciones en Cataluña". RTVE (in Spanish). 15 February 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ^ Ubieto, Gabriel (14 February 2021). "El PDECat, fuera del Parlament: los herederos de Convergència no llegan al 3% de los votos". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ Vicens, Laia (15 February 2021). "Els hereus de Convergència es queden fora del Parlament". Diari Ara (in Catalan). Retrieved 18 February 2021.