Spain’s lawmakers are to vote on a hugely divisive amnesty law for Catalan separatists

CIARÁN GILES
Associated Press

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s lower house of Parliament is to debate and vote on an hugely divisive amnesty law that aims to sweep away the legal troubles of hundreds of people who were involved in Catalonia’s unsuccessful 2017 independence bid. Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez agreed to the law in exchange for the parliamentary support of two small Catalan separatist parties, which enabled him to form a new minority leftist government late last year. But the bill has roused the ire of the conservative and far-right opposition parties that represent roughly half the country’s population. Many in the judiciary and police are also opposed.