Spain's Sanchez to seek new PM term amid uproar over amnesty bill


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  • Monday, 13 Nov 2023

FILE PHOTO: Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez smiles after signing an agreement with Andoni Ortuzar, the president of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), that will support Sanchez's bid to clinch another term in office at the Parliament in Madrid, Spain, November 10, 2023. REUTERS/Susana Vera/File photo

MADRID (Reuters) -Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will seek to clinch a new four-year term in a parliament vote on Thursday, the chamber's speaker said on Monday, just as his party submitted a contentious bill granting amnesty for Catalan separatists.

Sanchez, in power since 2018, looks assured of winning a new term by a narrow margin in the 350-member assembly in exchange for the planned amnesty law for those prosecuted over Catalonia's attempts to secede from Spain since 2012.

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