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Reuters
Politics
Joan Faus

Catalan leader says to freeze parliamentary support to Spanish PM over spying row

Catalonia's regional head of government Pere Aragones poses during an interview at Palau de la Generalitat in Barcelona, Spain, April 20, 2022. Picture taken April 20, 2022. REUTERS/Albert Gea

Catalonia's leftist Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya party will stop backing the Spanish government in parliament unless Madrid takes measures to restore confidence after reports that it spied on pro-independence figures, the region's leader said.

That could spell trouble for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez as his leftist coalition government lacks a parliamentary majority and the party of Catalonia's government head, Pere Aragones, has been instrumental in passing legislation.

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