Maragall reluctantly went along with the deal but his ERC allies protested and forced the dissolution of the Catalan parliament and snap elections in autumn 2006.

Theirs was not so much a demonstration as a celebration of victory, their job having been done a year ago when the Catalan parliament voted to ban the corrida throughout the province.

Many members and voters of CiU, the governing nationalist federation with the most seats at the Catalan parliament (30.7% of the vote), also give support to independence.

On January 23, 2013 the Catalan parliament passed the Catalan Sovereignty Declaration asserting that Catalonia is a sovereign entity and marking "the beginning of a process by which the citizens of Catalonia will be able to choose their political future as a people".

The other, the Generalitat, is the seat of the regional Catalan parliament, controlled by the right.

She is currently a member of the Catalan parliament.

She was elected to the Catalan parliament in 2006 and is currently the spokeswoman for the party's parliamentary group, a position she has held since 2008.

After Companys' death, Josep Irla, last President of the Catalan parliament, took charge of the Presidency of the Generalitat in exile until in 1954 Josep Tarradellas succeeded him, also in exile.

On October 3, 2009 he created a new Catalan independentist political party, Reagrupament, but it couldn't get representation in the Catalan parliament.

A decision by the regional Catalan parliament in July 2010 means that bullfight may be banned from January 2012, so aficionados need to get in a last look in the 2011 season.