Catalan kingmaker tells Spain's Sanchez not to take support for granted

FILE PHOTO: Pere Aragones i Garcia, President of the Government of Catalonia, attends the MEDEF union summer forum "La Rencontre des Entrepreneurs de France, LaREF" at the Paris Longchamp Racecourse in Paris, France, August 30, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File Photo

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain's Socialists (PSOE), seeking to form a government after a hard-fought national election, should not take the support of Catalonia's separatist parties for granted, one of their leaders said on Wednesday.

Senior Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) leader Pere Aragones, in his first interview since the election in which neither the left or right blocs won a clear majority, also argued that there were legal paths for another referendum on Catalan independence.