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Spain PM rejects ousted Catalan leader’s call to meet

Spain PM rejects ousted Catalan leader’s call to meet
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy attends a Popular Party (PP) meeting of the national executive committee held at the PP headquarters in Madrid, on Dec.22, 2017. (AFP)
Updated 22 December 2017

Spain PM rejects ousted Catalan leader’s call to meet

Spain PM rejects ousted Catalan leader’s call to meet

MADRID: Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Friday rejected a call by ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont to meet after separatists won a parliamentary majority in crucial regional polls.
“The person I should be meeting with is with the one who won the elections, and that is Mrs.Arrimadas,” Rajoy said, replying to a journalist who asked whether he would respond to Puigdemont’s invitation for a meeting.
Rajoy was referring to centrist, anti-independence candidate Ines Arrimadas, whose Ciudadanos party won the best individual result in Thursday’s poll — even as the bloc of separatist parties maintained its absolute majority.