Catalan secessionist parties failed on Thursday for a third time to elect a regional president, leaving them with a deadline of two months to pick someone or hold a new election.
Catalan secessionists fail again to elect new regional head
STEPANAKERT, MARCH 23, ARTSAKHPRESS:Jordi Turull, a close ally of former president Carles Puigdemont, needed 69 votes to be elected but obtained only 64.
Sixty-five lawmakers voted against him, while the four members of far-left group CUP broke ranks with the rest of parliament’s pro-independence bloc by abstaining.