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Spain's Socialists to grant amnesty to Catalan separatists in return for support of new govt
FRANCE 24 English
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11/10/2023
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The streets of Spain were packed Thursday night with droves of far-right nationalists
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upset with a new deal to appease Catalonian separatists.
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"You are a whore, you are a whore!"
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They are furious that acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his ruling Socialist Party
00:17
have offered amnesty to Catalonians who attempted to secede from Spain in 2017.
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The Socialist Party said Thursday that the deal will allow Spain to heal.
00:27
"It's an agreement that offers a historical opportunity to solve a conflict, a political
00:32
conflict that should and can only be solved by politics.
00:36
Only through negotiations should disagreements be solved."
00:40
But the deal is also important to secure the political future of Sánchez.
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He came in second in the general election in July and only became acting Prime Minister
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when the Conservative People's Party could not secure enough support to form a government.
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To remain Prime Minister, Sánchez will need the support of two Catalonian separatist parties.
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This deal will help achieve that.
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The leader of the People's Party said the deal was humiliating.
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"We are talking about giving in to blackmail that would turn the Supreme Court into an
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oppressor and would strike at the foundations of justice, weaken our state of autonomy and
01:18
put an end to the equality of Spaniards enshrined in the constitution."
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Surprisingly, Sánchez had also deemed such an amnesty to be unconstitutional in the past,
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making this a very large policy pivot.
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The Socialist Party now has three weeks to seek parliamentary support for a new Sánchez
01:38
government before fresh elections are triggered.
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