Crystal clear

The Spanish general election results showed a huge success for the Spanish nationalist Partido Popular (PP). The conservative party headed by Mariano Rajoy is now in control of both the Congress and the Senate in Madrid, and needs no alliances to govern the country or pass new laws.
However, happiness is not complete for the PP. They may have won in every corner of Spain, except for Catalonia and the Basque Country, not surprisingly the two regions whose population would vote 'yes' in a referendum to secede from Spain, according to the latests polls.
The media reflected the results of the elections with the traditional headlines explaining who won and who lost, but no one did it in such a creative way as El Punt-Avui newspaper. The cover page for November 21, with the headline "Catalonia is not Spain", in English, was commented on radio stations and TV networks around the country and became an instant hit in the social media, with thousands of web surfers sharing it through Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Well done!


Published in Catalonia Today magazine, December 2011