PDeCAT: heirs of old hegemonic party struggling to survive

The days of the center-right Catalan nationalist CiU bloc's two-decade hegemonic rule are long gone, although they once governed for 23 years straight, from 1980 to 2003, and used to win absolute majorities of up to 72 out of 135 seats. Yet, the independence surge in the early 2010s and their alleged involvement in a corruption scandal meant that CiU—made up of CDC and UDC and undecided on the issue of independence—broke down into a myriad of pieces, the main one of these being moderate, center-right and pro-independence PDeCAT. / ACN

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First published: February 11, 2021 03:47 PM