Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s Popular Party (PP) was on course to pick up 19 seats, up one from 2010, and just behind the leftist separatists of ERC, which seemed set to double its number of seats from the 10 it won two years ago. ICV, another leftist pro-sovereignty grouping, was also on course to gain seats to reach 13, meaning that nationalists would easily control a majority in the Catalan assembly.