Pro-separatist parties are expected to win control of Catalonia’s regional parliament after today’s election. They consider it a proxy-vote on independence from Spain. <br /><br /> But many of the five-and-a-half million voters said they did not believe the region would breakaway. <br /><br /> Head of the region’s government Artur Mas said the only way forward was a split from Spain. <br /><br /> “Everybody knows this election to the Catalan Parliament goes beyond a normal vote. These are extraordinary elections because, in the end, they are about the future of Catalonia,” said Mas.<br /><br /> Spain’s central government in Madrid says secession is impossible and warns it will block in court any attempt to break away from Spain. <br /><br /> The country’s interior minister Fernandez Díaz said “I just hope the parliament is going to be elected will be a cohesive chamber, an instrument to unify and not to divide.”<br /><br /> A Spanish general election is planned to take place in December 2015. Sunday’s (September 27) Catalan vote may play an imp
