{"id":126505,"date":"2021-06-14T15:03:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T07:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=126505"},"modified":"2021-06-14T15:03:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T07:03:53","slug":"spain-thousands-in-madrid-against-pardons-for-catalan-separatists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=126505","title":{"rendered":"Spain: Thousands in Madrid against pardons for Catalan separatists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/estaticos.efe.com\/efecom\/recursos2\/imagen.aspx?-P-2fL4Jfo8HOMhd3BgBMV5qnwSdT5lsiyCJQ4TncnkXVSTX-P-2bAoG0sxzXPZPAk5l-P-2fU5UpHLnDPiRxsSyPSApPRWQag-P-3d-P-3d\" alt=\"Thousands in Madrid against pardons for Catalan separatists\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MADRID, June 14 (NNN-EFE) &#8212; Thousands of people gathered in Madrid Sunday to protest against pardons the Spanish government is poised to grant to 12 Catalan separatist leaders serving sentences of between 9 and 13 years in prison for their roles in an independence referendum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said 25,000 people attended the right-wing protest which was attended by the heads of the conservative Popular Party (PP), Pablo Casado; from the far-right Vox, Santiago Abascal, and In\u00e9s Arrimadas, on behalf of the liberal Ciudadanos (Cs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The possibility of prime minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez\u2019s government pardoning the pro-independence leaders of Catalonia has divided Spain between those who see it as a necessary step to improve relations with the region and those who consider it an undue concession to separatists who have shown no remorse and have vowed to continue fighting for independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government of the socialist Workers&#8217; Party (PSOE) and the left-wing Podemos is in favor of the pardons, despite dissent from within the coalition, the conservative opposition and the judiciary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, Sanchez said that while he understands the opposition to pardoning the Catalan independence leaders, he urged the country to trust his government and \u201cto work on coexistence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSpanish society needs to move from a bad past to a better future \u2013 and that will require magnanimity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview published by the newspaper La Vanguardia, deputy prime minister Carmen Calvo said the pardons are imminent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also criticized the attitude of the conservative opposition and those attending the rally on Sunday, since the only viable way forward is to &#8220;normalize institutional relations, stop the tremendous confrontation caused by the independence movement and the Spanish right and stabilize the situation&#8221;. &#8212; NNN-EFE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID, June 14 (NNN-EFE) &#8212; Thousands of people gathered in Madrid Sunday to protest against pardons the Spanish government is poised to grant to 12 Catalan separatist leaders serving sentences of between 9 and 13 years in prison for their roles in an independence referendum. Police said 25,000 people attended the right-wing protest which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":126508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}