7th March 2026

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PSOE preparing draft Catalan amnesty bill ahead of Sánchez investiture vote

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Spain’s acting Prime Minister, socialist (PSOE) Pedro Sánchez, and the Catalan president, Pere Aragonès of the pro-independence Esquerra Republicana (ERC) party, have agreed on the terms of a...
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Pedro Sánchez: ‘In the interest of Spain, I defend amnesty in Catalonia’

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Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Saturday that he supports granting a controversial amnesty to those involved in Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid, in...
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Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz reach PSOE-Sumar coalition deal

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Spain’s socialist PSOE party and the left-wing alliance of Sumar said on Tuesday that they have reached an agreement to form a coalition government, a...
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Right-wing and far-right politicians join thousands in anti-amnesty rally in Barcelona

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Right-wing and far-right politicians in Spain joined a mass rally in Barcelona on Sunday to protest plans to grant Catalan pro-independence activists and politicians an...
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After Feijóo fails in his bid to become Spain’s prime minister, what happens next?

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With Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s bid to become Spain’s prime minister definitively over after Friday’s second vote, socialist leader Pedro Sánchez, currently the acting prime minister...
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The PP’s Alberto Núñez Feijóo loses first parliamentary vote to become PM

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Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the leader of the right-wing People’s Party (PP), saw his first bid to become Spain’s next prime minister rejected by the Spanish...
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Rally against Catalan amnesty, ahead of Feijóo facing ‘doomed’ investiture vote

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Tens of thousands of supporters of Spain’s current opposition right-wing People’s Party (PP), led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, rallied in Madrid on Sunday against the possible plans...
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Spain must wait to see if EU will accept Catalan, Basque & Galician as official languages

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Spain’s demand for Catalan, Basque and Galician to become official EU languages faced opposition on Tuesday as the bloc’s member states fear any such move...
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Puigdemont demands ‘amnesty’ for all independence activists as ‘precondition’ for Sánchez’s investiture

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The exiled former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, demanded on Tuesday an amnesty for hundreds of activists facing legal action over a failed 2017 independence...
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Yolanda Díaz ‘looks for democratic solutions via dialogue’ with Puigdemont in Brussels

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Spain’s acting deputy prime minister and labour minister, Yolanda Díaz, who is also the head of the left-wing Sumar group of parties, went to Brussels...