Spain’s prime minister has clinched agreement with Catalan separatists, officials said on Thursday, in a deal that will enable him to remain in power but that has raised tensions and sparked protests in the country.

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      The entire point of the parliamentary system is to create room to talk. It’s right in the name.

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        PP has more votes than PSOE. PP should have the main role in a coaliton with PSOE, the second place. Instead, PSOE has made a megacoalition with regionalist parties that do not represent the rest of the country in order to remain in power.

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          The PP had the first few weeks after the elections to gather the numbers, but no one wanted to make a coalition with the PP except VOX (far-right party). It’s normal that the other parties did not want to have anything to do with it.

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            Even with PP and VOX, PSOE’s coalition has more seats in total. PP wanted to form a coalition with PSOE, it’s PSOE that rejected it because then Feijoo would be the PM and not Sanchez