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full screen A supporter of Catalonia’s former regional president Carles Puigdemont holds up an independence flag in France earlier in May. Photo: Joan Mateu/AP/TT
The Parliament in Madrid has given its final approval to a controversial amnesty law, Spanish media reports.
The law means that hundreds of Catalan separatists involved in an illegal independence attempt in 2017 are given amnesty.
The amnesty opens the way for Carles Puigdemont, who fled Spain for Belgium after the failed attempt in 2017, to become president of the Catalans again.