The independence challenge of Catalonia and the way to face it was one of the decisive keys to the result that the polls threw on November 10. The waves of the CIS barometer carried out just before the elections indicate that after the prosecution's ruling, concern over the situation in Catalonia has skyrocketed. If in September it was a disturbing problem for 5.8% of respondents, at the end of October and first of November, the percentage had risen to 19% and 43.9% said that this issue would influence their decision to vote and why match do it.

This follows from the November barometer of the CIS, now published after the 10N elections so that many of its results do not serve as a prognosis for a future decision of citizens but as elements of study about the volatility of the vote in influenced pre-election periods for important events. In this case, the weeks leading up to the elections were marked mainly by the Supreme Court ruling that sentenced prison sentences for sedition, and in some cases also for embezzlement, to the leaders of the process and street revolts in Barcelona and, subsequently, for the exhumation of the remains of the dictator Francisco Franco of the Valley of the Fallen.

In the days before the elections, just after the Supreme Court was pronounced, 19% of Spaniards placed the independence of Catalonia among the three main problems of the country only behind unemployment, politicians and economic issues.

In addition, 43.9% said that the situation in Catalonia would influence their decision to go to the polls or not and why political force to bet. To 60% of this group of citizens, the Catalan problem reinforced him in his intention to vote for the party he planned; 17% confessed that this situation encouraged him to vote even though he had doubts before; 7% induced him to change the direction of his vote and 5.7% to refrain.

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