Josep Lago/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix. Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya’s (ERC) candidate Pere Aragones arrives to deliver a speech in the night of a Catalan regional election in Barcelona on February 14, 2021 – Catalan separatist parties boosted their parliamentary majority in a regional election today that was overshadowed by the pandemic and marked by low turnout, more than three years after a failed bid to break away from Spain. With over 90 percent of the votes counted, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists won the most votes but the three separatist parties together were set to get 74 seats in the 135-seat assembly. (Photo by Josep LAGO / AFP)