A total of 5.75 million voters were eligible to vote for a new parliament in the Spanish region of Catalonia on Sunday, with the separatist former incumbent, Carles Puigdemont, considered one of the favourites for head of the regional government. Voter turnout in the early afternoon was around 27%, around four percentage points higher than at the same time during the last election in 2021, which took place in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Puigdemont exploited the cancellation of suburban trains in Barcelona on election day due to cable theft to criticize the central government, which…