It may be possible for Puigdemont to acts as the kingmaker, but Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and his leftist PSOE party has always ruled out helping Catalonia's separatists.
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00:00 Without enough seats on either the left or the right,
00:02 could Catalonia's pro-independence parties be decisive in forming Spain's new government?
00:07 If so, the Junts party says its exiled leader, Carles Puigdemont,
00:12 who remains a fugitive in Belgium,
00:14 must receive an amnesty from the state for organising an illegal independence referendum in Catalonia.
00:21 The proposal of the Junts party is very clear.
00:24 It is the exercise of the right to self-determination and the amnesty,
00:28 which has not been resolved with a few indulgences that the government has granted.
00:45 I have said it, practically and passively, that the unity of Spain cannot be questioned.
00:51 So, in this sense, it seems to be difficult for the PSOE to negotiate in these terms.
00:56 The Junts party does not have so many incentives to form or to force a coalition with the PSOE and its side.
01:07 But on Monday, the public prosecutor's office asked for Puigdemont's international arrest warrant to be reactivated,
01:13 making it appear even less likely.
01:15 The deadline to form the courts is August 17th.
01:20 This is how the new legislature will start.
01:22 But in Spain there is no specific legal deadline to invest in the president,
01:26 so the negotiations could last for weeks.
01:29 Cristina Giner, Euronews, Barcelona.
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