Officials count votes at a polling station in Barcelona, Catalonia.
Separatist parties in Catalonia have won an absolute majority in the first elections since a controversial independence referendum in Spain's north.
Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont says the absolute majority won by separatists in a regional election is a victory of the "Catalan republic" over the Spanish state.
Puigdemont was speaking from Brussels, where he went into self-imposed exile after his government was sacked by Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in October when it declared independence from Sp
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