“…In the context of the Great Recession that hit Europe after 2008, the specialized literature on political parties mainly focused on the emergence of challenger parties competing on new issues, the restructuring of dimensions of electoral competition, and the overall effects of the crises on party systems at the national level (Chaisty and Whitefield, 2020;De Vries and Hobolt, 2020;Hernández and Kriesi, 2015;Hobolt and Tilley, 2016;Hooghe and Marks, 2018;Hutter et al, 2018). However, the literature largely remained silent as to the early impact of the Great Recession on the territorial dimension of competition, the electoral space of regionalist parties (RPs), and the old and new politicized issues in subnational spaces (for exceptions see Cuadras-Morató and Rodon, 2018;Gómez Fortes and Cabeza Pérez, 2013;Máiz and Ares, 2018;Rico, 2012, Massetti 2018.…”