English Language Broadcast   Panorama 18/02/2021 30:08


Today's program begins with a brief update on Spanish news. Region elections in Cataluña showed a low turnout with a majority of votes going to the pro-independence parties. Nonetheless, the PSC, the Catalan branch of the governing Socialist Party, received the most votes and won the same number of seats in Parliament as the ERC, Esquerra Republicana. Options for the formation of a government under consideration are either a progressive coalition or a separatist coalition. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's coalition government in Madrid depended on ERC to win power. Also in the news, the imprisonment of rapper Pablo Hasél, for tweets and rap-lyrics insulting the Monarchy and other institutions of the Spanish state. Since Tuesday, protests in Hasél's defence have been held throughout Spain. And neo-nazis gathered in Madrid to honor the memory of the "División Azul" Spanish soldiers who fought alongside the Nazis in the Second World War. Their anti-semitic discourse is under investigation as a possible hate crime. That is followed by a report on the IT Dansa company from Barcelona which performed at Madrid's Teatro Real and an interview with IT Dansa Director Catherine Allard.
 

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