Spain's legislature decides on a pardon bill for Catalonia.
Pedro Sánchez's Amnesty Law is a compromise with the independence-supporting groups in Madrid Parliament, who aided him form his coalition government after last year's elections. Contentious discussions and fervent demonstrations from opponents have arose since the proposal. The bill, voted favorably in the House of Representatives in March, was dismissed by the Senate in mid-May. The bill is now back in the House of Representatives for a final vote.
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The proposed Amnesty Law, initiated by Pedro Sánchez, aims to grant pardons to individuals involved in the Catalonia independence movement, a group largely supported by Parliament in Spain. Despite the bill's approval in the House of Representatives, Carles Puigdemont, a prominent Catalonian separatist leader, remains in exile in Belgium and is not included in the proposed pardon. The fate of the controversial Amnesty Act rests with another vote in the House of Representatives following its dismissal in the Senate.
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