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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Alasdair Soussi

Spain election drama: Sanchez wins backing for new term after Catalan deal

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has served since 2018 [File: Juan Medina/Reuters]

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has won parliament’s backing for a new term in office after striking a controversial deal with Catalan separatists.

In exchange for supporting Sanchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), nationalists from the Spanish region of Catalonia secured a commitment from the PSOE leader to pass an amnesty law that would pardon those linked to the botched Catalan bid for independence six years ago.

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