Opponents of acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's pact to form a coalition government with the pro-independence Catalan party have protested again outside the Socialist Party headquarters in Madrid. Tension boiled over at the demonstration resulting in several arrests.
🤖 I’m a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles:
Click here to see the summary
On Thursday night, protesters threw bottles, beer cans, and fireworks at a police cordon protecting the headquarters.
The officers responded with batons, tear gas, and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd as tensions rose.
''It has been set in motion today, definitely, the coup against the nation, against democracy and against the law, and therefore begins a black period in the history of Spain."
An amnesty has been the crucial part of negotiations by representatives of Sanchez’s caretaker leftist government to win the support of two Catalan pro-independence parties.
While the two radical parties hold just seven seats each in the 350-member parliament, only they can put Sanchez over the necessary threshold of 176 votes in an investiture session that is expected to be held in the coming days.
The amnesty would benefit Puigdemont and scores of others, from minor government officials to ordinary citizens, who ran into legal trouble for their roles in Catalonia’s illegal bid for independence that brought Spain to the brink of rupture six years ago.
Saved 57% of original text.