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Spain's Cabinet aims for a fresh start by pardoning Catalans

by Joseph WilsonAritz Parra
| June 22, 2021 3:03 AM

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish Cabinet is meeting Tuesday to issue pardons for nine imprisoned Catalans who spearheaded the 2017 effort to establish an independent republic in the affluent northeastern region, a move that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says is needed to bring reconciliation.

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