{"id":117629,"date":"2023-10-10T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/spain-protest-against-catalan-amnesty-deal-draws-huge-crowd\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T06:00:15","slug":"spain-protest-against-catalan-amnesty-deal-draws-huge-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/spain-protest-against-catalan-amnesty-deal-draws-huge-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain: Protest against Catalan amnesty deal draws huge crowd"},"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\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\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=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117629\" \/>\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    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nSpain faces new elections if a new coalition isn&#8217;t formed by next month. Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is planning to drop charges against Catalan separatists to help him secure a new term. Tens of thousands of people marched through Barcelona on Sunday to protest against plans to grant Catalan separatists an amnesty in exchange for their political support for a new left-wing government. Many of the protesters waved Spanish and Catalan flags or signs saying &#8220;No Amnesty!&#8221; as they flooded into the city center.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the crowd was 50,000 strong, while organizers \u2014 Societat Civil Catalana (SCC), a civil society group opposed to the region breaking away from Spain \u2014 put the figure at 300,000. Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez&#8217; of the Socialist bloc is trying to secure a new term in office and must strike a deal with the Junts and Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya parties to gain enough parliamentary support. The amnesty deal would see charges dropped against more than a thousand Catalan separatists who are facing legal action for the 2017 independence bid. Many of those involved are already in jail. The proposal has drawn a furious response from the right and the far-right, as well as from some within Sanchez&#8217;s own Socialist party, who say an amnesty cannot be used as a bargaining chip for him to remain in power.<\/p>\n<p>Alberto Nunez Feijoo, leader of the opposition conservative People&#8217;s Party and Santiago Abascal, leader of the far-right Vox party attended Sunday&#8217;s march, telling the crowd: &#8220;This is not an amnesty that seeks reconciliation. The only thing it seeks is to make [Sanchez] the head of the government.&#8221; Abascal denounced the plan as &#8220;an assault on the Constitution,&#8221; accusing Sanchez of carrying out &#8220;real abuses&#8221; in order to stay in power.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish politics has been in limbo since the inconclusive election in July. The People&#8217;s Party won the most seats but even with the support of Vox failed to secure a parliamentary majority. Despite months of subsequent negotiations, Feijoo was unable to gain the support of smaller parties to form a governing coalition. This week, King Felipe VI gave Sanchez permission to seek the backing of other political parties for a new mandate. To win the parliamentary vote, he needs the backing of seven lawmakers from a hardline Catalan separatist party that has demanded the amnesty. Sanchez has defended his conciliatory policy with Catalonia, including a 2021 pardon to nine jailed leaders, and said the 2017 crisis &#8220;brought nothing good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the amnesty deal doesn&#8217;t have the support of most Spaniards, according to a poll last month. Around 70% of respondents \u2014 59% of them Socialist supporters \u2014 said they were against the idea of an amnesty. If no candidate for prime minister secures a majority by November 27, a repeat election has to be called.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/spain-protest-against-catalan-amnesty-deal-draws-huge-crowd\/a-67033403\">DW<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/spain-protest-against-catalan-amnesty-deal-draws-huge-crowd\/\">Spain: Protest against Catalan amnesty deal draws huge crowd<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","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":[4372,11192,563,1102,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-117629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amnesty","tag-catalan","tag-protest","tag-spain","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}