People hold placards depicting Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez during a protest against his presence in Viladecans, near Barcelona, Spain, October 30, 2019. REUTERS/Albert Gea
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez, stepping up efforts to control separatist groups and parties' activity on the internet, said on Thursday his government would not allow Catalonia to seek "online" independence.
Sanchez faces a parliamentary election on Nov.10, with much depending on how voters react to days of sometimes violent protests that followed the jailing of nine Catalan separatist leaders this month.
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