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#Catalonia elections: deadlock.
1. The secessionist parties retained their wafer-thin parliamentary majority
2. Non-nationalist liberal party Ciudadanos won the majority vote (over 1.1 million and 25.3 percent) with 37 seats
3. Prime Minister Rajoy's PP and the government went from 19 seats in the Catalan Parliament just five years ago to 11 seats in 2015, to a meagre 3 seats this year
4. Podem has gone down from 11 seats and nearly 9 percent of votes in 2015 to 8 seats and around 7 percent