Highlights: In Galicia, stronghold of the Popular Party (PP), the party could lose the absolute majority. Sources close to the conservatives revealed that Popular Party leader Alberto Feijoo had considered a conditional amnesty. “There was never any question of a general amnesty,” he told local journalists. These revelations come as Carles Puigdemont sent a letter to all MEPs in which he threatens to reveal details of negotiations with the Spanish right. Once again, the former Catalan president exiled in Belgium is pulling the strings of Spanish politics.

In Galicia, stronghold of the Popular Party (PP), the party could lose the absolute majority. Sources close to the conservatives revealed that Popular Party leader Alberto Feijoo had considered…

Spain: unease on the right less than a week before the regional elections in Galicia

In Galicia, stronghold of the Popular Party (PP), the party could lose the absolute majority. Sources close to the conservatives revealed that the leader of the popular party Alberto Feijoo had considered a conditional amnesty, to allow reconciliation between the Catalan separatists and Madrid, in exchange for the support of the separatists for his inauguration.

Popular Party leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo speaks during a debate on the legislative proposal to provide amnesty to those involved in Catalonia's failed 2017 independence bid, in Madrid, Spain, January 30, 2024. © Ana Beltran / Reuters

By: RFI Follow

With our correspondent in Madrid,

Diane Cambon

During the electoral campaign for the regional elections in Galicia, the leader of the

Spanish

right returned to his land. He took the opportunity to try to calm the controversy sparked around the reconciliation plan with the

Catalan

separatists , envisaged by the conservatives last August. Alberto Feijoo wanted to clarify the leaks that were published in

the daily

El Pais

. “

There was never any question of a general amnesty

,” he told local journalists.

Carles Puigdemont pulls the strings of Spanish politics

The leader of the right, who for months has been accusing the left of treason and inviting Spaniards to

demonstrate against the amnesty law

, surprised the political class with this announcement. The leader of the conservatives admitted to having considered a conditional amnesty for the Catalan separatists, accused of having carried out the secession attempt in 2017.

The Popular Party would have proposed to release former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont from all legal charges after he agrees to be tried, makes his

mea culpa

and renounces unilateral independence. These revelations come as Carles Puigdemont sent a letter to all MEPs in which he threatens to reveal details of negotiations with the Spanish right. Once again, the former Catalan president exiled in Belgium is pulling the strings of Spanish politics.

Spain: unease on the right less than a week before the regional elections in Galicia

Spain: unease on the right less than a week before the regional elections in Galicia

Carles Puigdemont pulls the strings of Spanish politics

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