‘We will not give up self-determination,’ says Torra after meeting with Sánchez

Catalan president, Quim Torra, came out of his first meeting with the head of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, calling the encounter "long, sincere and productive" and that it had allowed the two leaders to "compare the vision" that each have of Catalonia.

Talking to the press after the meeting on Monday afternoon, Torra also insisted that he told Sánchez that any solution to the political conflict “has to include the right to self-determination."

In what he described as a frank encounter, Torra said that “throughout the meeting President Sánchez listened and took notes,” and he also celebrated that the Spanish president admitted that the Catalan conflict is "political and needs to be solved by political means."

However, the Catalan president said he told his counterpart that he "can't give up on the right to self-determination, as it belongs to the people."