Catalan president to call early election as divisions grow

Quim Torra address lays bare splits over best way to achieve independence from Spain

Catalonia's separatist president, Quim Torra, has announced he will call an early regional election amid growing divisions and deteriorating relations between the two pro-independence parties in his coalition government.

In an address that laid bare the splits between his centre-right Together for Catalonia party and the Catalan Republican Left (ERC), Torra said: "No government can work without unity and without a shared, common strategy and loyalty between partners."