Nuria Gispert was reelected yesterday as the president of the Parliament of the Generalitat de Catalunya (but notice that the president of the Parliament isn't the president of the government, who nowadays is Artur Mas). Because of this fact, now it's a good time to explain a little to you how catalan politics work, because they are actually a bit strange.
Last 25th of november, the Catalan people voted in elections, and we have had a period of negosiating between the leaders of the -now- two major political parties: Convergència i Unió (Convergence and Union) and Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (Catalan Republican Left). These negosiations seem to have reached to an end today, but these is going deeper than our first-glance to Catalan politics should be.
So to begin with, we have to stablish a two axis graph in order to understand the positioning of Catalan political parties. One of the axis is the traditional Right-Left, but the other is between more nationalists or less. So two parties that are both nationalists could differ in the other axis, and vice-versa.
Let's take a look on that graphic to see it in a more graphical way:
Is very clear at the time of trying to understand it, if somebody doesn't know anything about politics in Catalonia, he would understand perfectly all with this!
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