To Madrid
The amnesty law co-produced by the Catalan separatists, which was to forgive the crimes committed by their comrades during the failed secession process of 2017, was rejected Tuesday evening by… seven Catalan separatist deputies!
The cornerstone of the start of the mandate of the socialist Pedro Sanchez, the counterpart imposed by his turbulent allies on his inauguration at the head of the Spanish government last November, the subject of unimaginable negotiations for months... ended in a bitter failure parliamentary.
By 179 votes to 171, the right (People's Party, PP), the extreme right (Vox) and the seven representatives of Junts (center-right separatists) refuse the text, facing the coalition which supports the government - socialists (PSOE ), radical left (Sumar and Podemos) and Basque, Galician and Catalan regional groups (including the other left-wing independence party, ERC).
A disagreement which threatens both the legal fate of hundreds of independence activists…
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