FILE PHOTO: Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez gives a statements at the Palacio de la Moncloa in Madrid, Spain October 24, 2019. REUTERS/Javier Barbancho/File Photo
MADRID (Reuters) - A "significant number" of security forces will be sent to Catalonia ahead of Sunday's parliamentary elections to make sure that protests that have rocked the Spanish region do not disrupt the vote, acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday.
Catalan separatism, and the weeks of protests that erupted in the regional capital Barcelona following the sentencing of nine independence leaders to jail mid-October, have been thrust into the spotlight again as Spain gears up for its fourth election in four years.
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