![]() The joker in the pack, however, is the PP. Polls suggest that situation could be reversed and the local nationalists could win more national seats than the Socialists for the first time. In the present Congress, the Catalan Socialist Party (PSC) - the local branch of Mr Gonzalez's PSOE - has 20 of the 46 Catalan seats to the CiU's 18. Under Spain's post-Franco democracy, the CiU has emerged as clear winner in regional elections but has come second to the Socialists in national balloting. His party's priority, he said, was to win in Catalonia. ![]() ![]() Mr Pujol insisted he was not yet thinking of the possible post-election permutations. Mr Aznar, though with fewer seats than the Socialists, could be asked by the King to form a government if Basque and Catalan support swings the balance in his favour. ![]()
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