More probably they will demand that ever more functions be handed to them, say others: look at JordiPujol, the longtime Catalan-nationalist premier (to borrow the Canadian word) of Catalonia.
For the first time for many years, the Socialist Party, under Pasqual Maragall, a former mayor of Barcelona, won more votes than Catalonia's conservative nationalists under their long-serving leader, JordiPujol, who nonetheless (because of the voting system) won more seats in the assembly.