Spain’s acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez expected to win backing for new term – Europe live

Sanchez set to secure congressional support after controversial Catalan amnesty law forgiving people involved in push for regional independenceSpeaking at the investiture debate, Mertxe Aizpurua, an MP for the leftwing Basque nationalist party EH Bildu, has called on Pedro Sánchez to govern to help working class people.You need to govern and think in the interests of the majority of working people and not in those of the big companies, banks and multinationals.You rejected an amnesty for people who didn’t commit any crime, yet you revere the 1977 amnesty that gave total impunity for the crimes of Francoism and those who committed them. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/16/spain-acting-prime-minister-pedro-sanchez-expected-win-backing-for-new-term-europe-latest-updates

Author : Lili Bayer in Brussels

Publish date : 2023-11-16 08:53:30

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