Spain’s Catalan compromise: a national betrayal?

In order to seal his return to power for a second term, Spain's Socialist Party leader, Pedro Sánchez has cut a deal with the Catalan separatists

Pedro Sanchez and Spain's new cabinet
Pedro Sánchez and his new cabinet met for the first time this week
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Something is happening in Spain, said Jorge Fernández Díaz in La Razón (Madrid), "that surpasses everything imaginable in a civilised society and a country organised as a democracy in a rule of law". 

In order to seal his return to power for a second term, Spain's Socialist Party leader, Pedro Sánchez, has sold the Spanish nation and the rule of law down the river. He has cut a deal with the Catalan separatists who masterminded the illegal independence referendum of 2017, promising to grant them amnesty in exchange for the seven parliamentary votes he needs to secure a majority. "There are no words to define this infamy."

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