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Pedro Sánchez could settle for election on November 10 as time runs out to form functioning government
socialist leader
Catalan lawmakers to head both Spain’s congress and senate
Spanish president responds to pro-independence veto on Socialist choice to lead upper chamber
Pro-independence parties end Socialist leader's bid to head Senate
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Former Spanish vice president and Socialist party leader dies
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New Spanish president Pedro Sánchez takes office
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Socialist leader says Puigdemont has ‘no intention’ of return
Miquel Iceta tells Catalan TV that dismissed president’s situation is a legal issue and no longer a political one
Puigdemont questions Spain’s willingness to dialogue as it doesn’t include bilateral negotiation with Catalonia
The Catalan President, Carles Puigdemont, is suspicious regarding Spain’s executive willingness to dialogue. During this Wednesday’s session of control in the Parliament, Puigdemont stated that Catalonia deserves a bilateral negotiation with the Government in Madrid and that he considers anything other than this a way to “dilute and disguise what is really going on” in Catalonia and therefore “confuse public opinion”. Pro-independence radical left CUP MP, Mireia Boya, went a bit further and urged Puigdemont not to go along with Spain’s “siren calls” in relation to its supposed openness to dialogue. On the other hand, Xavier García Albiol, the leader of the Catalan branch of Spain’s governing party PP, called for Puigdemont not to be like “a statue” before the “signals” sent by the Spanish Government.