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In exchange for parliamentary support PM Sanchez agreed to the law to allow him to form a minority leftist government.

(Update: edits headline, lead) Madrid, Jan 30 (EFE).- The Spanish Congress will resume negotiations on a draft amnesty law for Catalan independence supporters responsible for the 2017 secession attempt, after it was rejected by the lower house on Tuesday when the Catalan Junts party demanded more guarantees. The bill will return to the Justice Committee, …

Junts nationalists abstain in vote on government decrees.

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Whatever government is formed, there is no golden road out of the crisis. A PSOE-government is not the answer to the far-right. To the extent that workers continue to accept the PSOE and Sumar as a lesser evil, this will only disarm them politically.

It is always difficult to discern what lessons political events in one country have for another. But when Spain holds elections that demonstrate it’s a 50-50 country, with a conservative side itself deeply divided over how to respond to the Left’s cultural advances, Americans should take note.

Catalan politician Clara Ponsati, who is wanted by the Spanish authorities for her involvement in the 2017 independence drive in the region, was arrested