>>30846
>So, could a kind soul from that region that knows the situation better enlighten me, por favor?
hola australià, I'm gonna try and do my best to explain the situation.
>nti-independence side saying that this is nonsense, only 40% of Catalonians support independence
That is beeing said because only 40% of the population voted on the 1 ocober 2017 referendum, the one where the police came and tried to stop voters from voting, so there really isnt a real number on how many people voted. That being said, independentist parties always come first in elections here so it's most likely a 50-50 case. or atleast it was before the cops came here and started using ilegal weapons
>Spain is a corrupt shithole slipping back into totalitarianism
Spain is considered to be one of the few full democracies, that being said the goberment has started to make videos saying how democratic they are ( example https://youtube.com/watch?v=nZrAPrbNdM8 [Embed] ) wich I think is not a good sign.
>>30904
TD;LR
PSOE (theoricaly left-wing pary spoier: not in practice) whants to get more progresive votes beceuse they couldn't and didn't whant to form a coalition goverment with the rest of the left and the elections will have to be re-held again they probably think that they will win and will be able to not form a coalitzion goberment, thanks to them Spain has been without goberment since April lel, It's kinda funny, but this has happened in spain already, in 2016 we were without goverment for 8 months.