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Protests across Spain as government amnesty deal goes ahead
There could finally be a government in Spain as early as next week now that a deal has been agreed between the PSOE and Catalan parties
Protests have been occurring daily in cities across Spain outside the local offices of the ruling PSOE Socialist party to speak out against the party’s plan to pact an amnesty with Catalan separatists in order to gain their support as minority partners in a potential coalition government.
This amnesty deal is unpopular amongst many Spaniards as they say it absolves traitors for crimes against the constitution for the sole purpose of furthering the political ends of acting President Pedro Sánchez.
The protests have been become increasingly violent, with police in riot gear being called in to try and keep the peace.
Outside the Congress building in Madrid, one man chained himself to a tree and declared a hunger strike in protest.
The main political party the PSOE is trying to pact with, the Catalonian Junts party headed by exiled leader Carles Puigdemont in Brussels, has this Thursday November 9 agreed to the terms of the deal.
Pedro Sánchez will now be able to seal the deal next week and proceed with the investiture of his proposed coalition government.Opposition parties have been scathing, with VOX’s Santiago Abascal calling it a “a coup d'état, a coup to the Constitution” and spokespeople for the PP party saying it “violates the rule of law” and that it is “the greatest attack on democracy in our history perpetrated by the PSOE”.
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