After Spain's Socialists failed to clinch a majority in a July election, it was clear they would have to do a deal with smaller parties, including Catalan separatists, for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to remain in power. But when the deal, forged over months of tense negotiations, finally landed on Thursday and confirmed Catalan independence activists would be given amnesty in return for their support, it still sent shockwaves around the country. Opposition leaders described it as a "giving in to blackmail" by independence leaders, a "humiliation of the judiciary" and a signal a country not yet 50 years past the death of Francisco Franco was veering back to "dictatorship".
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