Javier Soriano/AFP
Some separatists did not vote for the amnesty law that was supposed to cement the majority.
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An amnesty law co-authored by Catalan separatists, which would have pardoned the crimes committed by their allies during the failed secession process of 2017, was rejected on Tuesday evening by… seven Catalan separatist deputies! The cornerstone of socialist Pedro Sánchez’s mandate, imposed by his turbulent allies upon his inauguration at the head of the Spanish government last November, was the subject of months of implausible negotiations… ending in bitter parliamentary failure. .
By 179 votes to 171, the right (Popular Party, PP), extreme right (Vocs) and seven representatives of the Junts (centre-right separatists) reject the text, facing a coalition supporting the government – the Socialists (PSOE), the radical left (Summer and Podemos) and Basque, Galician and Catalan regional groups (including another left-wing independence party, the ERC). A disagreement that threatens both the legal future of hundreds of freedom activists…
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