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...Sánchez told parliament on Wednesday: “On a day like today, and despite the news I have heard, despite everything, I still believe in justice in my country.”...
...He added: “I believe that [it] brings to an end a period of confrontation, a decade of collective failure in Catalonia in which nobody won.”...
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...Pablo Simón, a professor of politics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, said: “The government will get started and I think it can at least get halfway through a four-year term....
...If he won enough votes to become the regional president, he said, “I will leave exile for good to be present in parliament” for the investiture vote....
...I think we’re going to hear terrible things and that, logically, is going to stir people up.”...
...“I have the votes within my reach to be prime minister, but I do not accept the price I’m being asked to pay,” he said. “I am unable to agree to what you are going to agree to.”...
...“The tools of repression I was a victim of are tried and tested,” he said. “An amnesty would defuse all of this machinery and make clear that what happened to us was wrong. We had a right to be there.”...
...“I will not be prime minister at the expense of the dignity of my country and the equality of all Spaniards,” the conservative leader said....
...In exchange, the Together for Catalonia party will support the current socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez. That paves the way for Sánchez to secure another term in office....
...I am an avid reader of Jo Ellison’s column and was surprised to feel irked when she described Lauren Sánchez, a woman in her early fifties, as “sprightly” (“Of Bezos and biceps”, Opinion, Life & Arts, November...
...Other EU leaders used a summit in Brussels last week to personally urge Spanish and Greek prime ministers Pedro Sánchez and Kyriakos Mitsotakis to donate some of their systems to Ukraine, according to people...
...“And I’m going to tell you that 99.9 per cent of Spanish business people do not agree with it either.”...
...“What I’m . . . concerned about is about lack of planning and co-ordination between different countries, different projects, connecting all these different projects to each other,” she added....
...“I have looked for pacts with democratic parties to pass laws that improve people’s lives,” he said in a television interview. “I have looked for seats under every rock.”...
...“Because it’s the only way I see to make sure the PP carries out certain policies,” he said....
...On Tuesday, Sánchez said he would respect the king’s decision, but he added: “I think everyone knows, even Mr Feijóo himself, that it would be a failed investiture” vote if the PP leader tried to become...
...(Good read by Barney Jopson on Sánchez’s gamble here.) I continue to think that is unlikely....
...“I want to be prime minister, but not in any way possible,” Feijóo said....
...I will continue to work until the independence of my country is achieved democratically, and I will not be intimidated by anything or anyone....
...Pedro Sánchez, via interpreterGood morning. I will be brief and I will also try to be very clear....
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