Pro-independence support falls to 38%, with those against it at 54%

Catalonia's independence push peaked in 2017 and 2019, but since then, surveys show that the movement has slowly lost support. A new survey published on Thursday by the Catalan survey agency (CEO), a government-funded organization, found that 37.6% of people surveyed would vote 'Yes' in an independence referendum.

This is the lowest figure recorded since the CEO's barometer surveys began asking locals about their position on this subject.

Meanwhile, those who are completely against an independent Catalonia remain at its highest level of 54%, the same figure as in the last published barometer.

When asked which kind of government they want, those advocating for a self-ruling executive dropped to 27.5%, the lowest figure since June 2011. This was way before the independence push peaked, as CEO director Joan Rodríguez Teruel highlighted during a press conference on Thursday.

On the other hand, the number of those in favor of Catalonia as an autonomous region within Spain, the status quo, has peaked at 36%, the highest figure since 2010.