On September 27 the coalition Junts pel Si (Together for Yes) led by Artur Mas won the local election in Catalonia. Its political platform promised to work towards Catalonia’s independence of Spain. On November 9 the Catalan parliament passed a separatist motion: the legislators were tasked with

Within the meaning of the same motion the Spanish Constitutional Court no longer had jurisdiction over Catalonia. In the wake of these events the Spanish government headed by Mariano Rajoy appealed with the Constitutional Court to suspend the Catalan motion and to issue a warning to 29 top Catalan politicians.

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Though Junts pel Si, the coalition that opts for separatism, won the September 27 elections, it did not win the majority of votes (48%). Two weeks after the elections the October 10 opinion poll revealed a falling number of separatists in the province (41%). This does not reflect the distribution of parliamentary votes cast on 9 November, a day when the separatist motion was passed: those in favour had a 53% majority2. The attitude towards the question of independence seems to be fickle, with a difference of 12 percentiles within some six weeks, granting the data from the polling booths, public opinion surveys and parliamentary vote can be compared. This inconstancy may be put down to a number of factors. Catalan acting PM Artur Mas might be one of them.