Tens of Thousands Protest Catalan Amnesty Law in Spain | VOA News #shorts

Waving Spanish flags, some 170,000 people marched through the Spanish capital Madrid Saturday in the largest protest yet against an amnesty law which the Socialists agreed over Catalonia's 2017 separatist bid in order to form a government.

The demonstration, the latest in a series of protests in cities across Spain against the amnesty, took place two days after Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez won a four-year term with the backing of Catalan and Basque nationalist parties in return for agreeing to the law.

The amnesty will cover about 400 people involved in the independence bid that came to a head in 2017, including separatists but also police involved in clashes with activists.

The independence referendum was declared illegal by the courts and resulted in Spain's worst political crisis for decades.

(Reuters)

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