Spain's Socialist Party has struck a deal with a fringe Catalan separatist party to grant an amnesty for people involved in the region's failed secession bid, sparking a protest outside the party's headquarters.
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00:00 We are going to start a decisive week here in the Congress of Deputies so that Spain can finally have a government after four months of elections and after the failure of the investment of the winner, the popular Alberto Núñez Feijó.
00:17 Pedro Sánchez's Socialist Party comes here with the absolute majority guaranteed after reaching an agreement with the Catalan independentist parties as a condition prior to a controversial amnesty law for those involved in the process that the Socialist Party and its partners will register in the next hours in the Congress.
00:36 The deputies will finally be able to read the small letter of the law that will allow the return of Carles Puigdemont to Spain without being judged and that has unleashed a wave of protests in the streets.
00:47 It is expected that in the middle of the week the investiture plenary will be held, which will re-elect Pedro Sánchez as president of the government.
00:55 A plenary surrounded by great security measures in the face of possible new protests.
01:02 The police will shield the Parliament to avoid altercations. In Madrid, Jaime Velázquez, Euronews.
01:07 KELOLAND news.
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