Catalans vote in election that offers new chance to exiled separatist leader

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Weather’s role in wildfires in Atlantic Canada | SaltWire #weather #climatechange #wildfireseasonBARCELONA - Catalans go to the polls on Sunday in a regional vote which offers the choice of an exiled separatist politician who led a breakaway push in 2017, or an anti-independence government led by the Socialist Party.

Puigdemont faces prosecution in Spain over the failed independence bid, which triggered the country's worst political crisis in decades. He is set to return home following an amnesty put forward by the Socialist national government that would annul the arrest warrant he faces. A government led by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's Socialists in Catalonia would end a decade of separatist governments that have roiled Spanish politics, and would be a vindication of Sanchez's conciliatory approach with Catalonia.

"I don't trust any candidate," he said, pondering between centre-right parties People's Party or Junts, though he dislikes Puigdemont. If the Socialists win they may seek an alliance with ERC or Junts, although both separatist parties have so far ruled that out.

 

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