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alfredo pérez rubalcaba
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Socialist leadership changes but their stance on Catalonia's self-determination does not
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Main candidate to lead Spanish Socialist Party would accept a "legal" Catalan self-determination vote
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Catalan Socialist leader resigns due to electoral clashes and internal tensions for self-determination
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Business and Socialist pressure to talk and to reform Constitution, but Spanish Government remains opposed
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Earthquake among the Catalan Socialists for the self-determination vote
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People’s Party rejects the Socialists’ territorial reform to better fit Catalonia
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Spanish Socialists propose a “territorial reform” to better fit Catalonia
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PSOE rules out the Catalan Socialists’ patch to keep Catalonia within Spain
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The Spanish Government “will not allow” and “will not negotiate” on Catalonia’s self-determination vote
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Catalan Socialists to oppose any self-determination initiative without Madrid’s approval
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The Catalan Executive expects the Spanish establishment to make an offer regarding Catalonia’s self-government
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The Spanish socialists offer a constitutional reform to Mas but reject a referendum on independence
At a meeting with Catalan President Artur Mas, the Spanish socialist party (PSOE) leader Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba offered support for constitutional reform in Spain, but rejected the idea of a referendum on independence. Mas said that the legal framework cannot be used to “abort” the plans for an independence referendum. He added that it is an “enormous” mistake to think that. Rubalcaba said that the constitutional reform offer is an alternative “to a vote for separation”.