{"id":118824,"date":"2023-11-20T07:35:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T05:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/thousands-protest-spains-catalan-separatist-amnesty-law\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T07:35:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T05:35:40","slug":"thousands-protest-spains-catalan-separatist-amnesty-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/thousands-protest-spains-catalan-separatist-amnesty-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands protest Spain\u2019s Catalan separatist amnesty law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118824\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nTens of thousands of Spaniards took to the streets of Madrid on Saturday to denounce a proposed amnesty law for Catalan separatists and activists, which was key for the left-wing government to retain power. Around 170,000 people, according to police, gathered in Plaza de Cibeles in the heart of the Spanish capital in response to a call by right-wing leaders opposed to the amnesty plan.<\/p>\n<p>Cries of \u201cSanchez, traitor\u201d, \u201cSanchez in jail\u201d and \u201cCatalonia is Spain\u201d were shouted by protesters of all ages who carried Spanish and other European flags distributed by the European People\u2019s Party. \u201cWhat Pedro Sanchez wants is to cut Spain into pieces, to have the Basque country on one side and Catalonia on the other, and to say nothing happened,\u201d said Maria Angeles Galan, a 65-year-old retiree from Madrid at the rally.<\/p>\n<p>Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, in power since 2018, came second in July parliamentary elections behind right-wing leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo, but managed to be reinstated after winning support from regionalist groups including Catalan pro-independence parties. In exchange for their votes, which were essential for reaching a governing majority, Sanchez accepted several concessions including the adoption of the amnesty bill for separatist leaders and activists who were prosecuted for their involvement in Catalonia\u2019s 2017 secession attempt. \u201cThey know they don\u2019t have the votes to do what they\u2019re doing. That\u2019s why we\u2019re telling them with this demonstration,\u201d Feijoo said, accusing Sanchez of pitting Spaniards \u201cagainst each other\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Also present at the demonstration was the leader of the far-right party Vox, Santiago Abascal, who called the law \u201cas serious as a coup d\u2019etat\u201d. The two leaders did not attend the demonstration together. Feijoo had attempted in September to be chosen as prime minister with the support of Abascal, but failed to win a majority in parliament. \u201cI think that the fight starts now,\u201d said Mariana, a 51-year-old entrepreneur at the protest who did not want to give her surname, adding that \u201cit\u2019s a message to Europe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Brussels called on Madrid for an explanation on the amnesty bill after saying it had \u201cbeen contacted about the issue by a large number of citizens\u201d. Luis Garrido, 65, who called himself a \u201csocialist but not a Sanchist\u201d, said the prime minister should not have accepted &#8216;this price&#8217;. \u201cI don\u2019t want Spain to sink\u201d and be \u201cdivided in this way\u201d, he said. The crowd that gathered around midday dispersed peacefully after speeches were made. Demonstrations have been held every day for the past two weeks in front of the Socialist Party headquarters in Madrid, some of which have turned violent and resulted in dozens of arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/thousands-protest-spains-catalan-separatist-amnesty-law\/article\">DJ<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/thousands-protest-spains-catalan-separatist-amnesty-law\/\">Thousands protest Spain\u2019s Catalan separatist amnesty law<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,2215,563,12305,12306],"class_list":["post-118824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-law","tag-protest","tag-separatist","tag-spaincatalan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}