 Complete the following phrase:  The recent increase in support for Catalan independence has its roots in a Constitutional Court ruling in 2010, which struck down parts of the regional 2006 Statute of Autonomy that granted new powers of self-rule to the region. The ruling came after four years of deliberation concerning a constitutional appeal filed by the conservative Peoples Party PP under Mariano Rajoythen the countrys second-largest party, in opposition to the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapateros Spanish Socialist Workers Partyand was met with anger and street protests in Catalonia. Shortly afterward the PP took power in Spain, and after a massive 