3rd May 2024

Catalan Independence

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Pedro Sánchez faces backlash and tough legislature ahead due to Catalan deal

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Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez – who is now certain to be officially reinstated in power after an investiture debate and vote to be
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The PSOE and Junts sign a pact that will guarantee investiture of Pedro Sánchez

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Spain’s PSOE socialist party has signed a controversial pact with the Catalan pro-independence Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) party that will enable acting Prime Minister Pedro
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Protests against amnesty turn ugly as police use tear gas and smoke canisters

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Three people were arrested late on Monday in Madrid in an on-going protest against negotiations between Spain’s acting government and Catalan pro-independence parties over a
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Spanish judge now wants to question Puigdemont as part of terrorism investigation

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A judge at Spain’s National Court now wants to question former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont as part of a terrorism investigation into the activities of the Tsunami
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Spain’s opposition parties condemn amnesty plan, as protests against PSOE increase

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Spain’s right-wing and far-right opposition parties, as well as members of the country’s judiciary, have stepped up criticism of acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s plans
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Puigdemont keeps Sánchez waiting on investiture deal

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The bid by Spain’s acting socialist (PSOE) Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, to form a new government needs the backing of the former Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, who
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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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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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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