The fragility of Spain’s socialist-led minority government has been laid bare after its bill offering a controversial amnesty to Catalan separatists was scuppered by one of the Catalan pro-independence parties that had demanded the measure in return for helping secure Pedro Sánchez a second term as prime minister.
The draft law would apply to about 400 people involved in the symbolic, unilateral independence referendum of November 2014 and the poll that followed three years later and culminated in a unilateral declaration of regional independence that plunged Spain into its worst political crisis for four decades.
