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PSOE preparing draft Catalan amnesty bill ahead of Sánchez investiture vote

News Desk1st November 20237th November 2023

1st November 20237th November 20232346

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...

Pedro Sánchez: ‘In the interest of Spain, I defend amnesty in Catalonia’

News Desk29th October 20231st November 2023

29th October 20231st November 20231844

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...

Right-wing and far-right politicians join thousands in anti-amnesty rally in Barcelona

News Desk8th October 202315th October 2023

8th October 202315th October 20232336

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...

Rally against Catalan amnesty, ahead of Feijóo facing ‘doomed’ investiture vote

News Desk24th September 202327th September 2023

24th September 202327th September 20232212

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...

Spain must wait to see if EU will accept Catalan, Basque & Galician as official languages

News Desk19th September 202329th September 2023

19th September 202329th September 20232298

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...

Puigdemont demands ‘amnesty’ for all independence activists as ‘precondition’ for Sánchez’s investiture

News Desk5th September 202312th September 2023

5th September 202312th September 20232162

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...

Socialist candidate Armengol elected as parliament speaker – seen as step to Sánchez securing re-election

News Desk17th August 202325th August 2023

17th August 202325th August 20232177

Francina Armengol, the candidate proposed by Spain’s PSOE socialist party, was elected by MPs as the parliament’s new speaker on Thursday morning, which has been...

Spain’s Constitutional Court rejects hearing Puigdemont’s appeal against arrest warrant

News Desk11th August 202322nd August 2023

11th August 202322nd August 20231961

Spain’s Constitutional Court has rejected hearing an appeal lodged by the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and ex-health minister Toni Comín against the warrants for...

Spain’s public prosecutor requests new EU arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont

News Desk25th July 20231st August 2023

25th July 20231st August 20232589

See end of report for update. Spain’s public prosecutor has asked the Supreme Court to issue a new European Arrest Warrant for former Catalan president...

Outcome of 23 July election could raise Catalan independence tensions again

News Desk14th July 202327th July 2023

14th July 202327th July 20232478

Spain’s right wing, in power under former pemier Mariano Rajoy during Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid, is trying to regain ground in the vote-rich region...

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