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SPANISH Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called yesterday for a strong anti-separatist turnout in next month’s snap elections in Catalonia.
Mr Rajoy’s first visit to Barcelona since invoking article 155 of the constitution to suspend the autonomous community’s government came the day after hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in the city for the release of jailed regional ministers.
Mr Rajoy told members of his conservative Popular Party in Barcelona: “We want a massive turnout to open up a new period of normality” after the December 21 election.
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died 50 years ago today November 20. JIM JUMP looks back at his blood-soaked rule and toxic legacy on Spain today
We must remember Morocco’s land grab of the Sahrawi people’s territory continues with French and British support, writes BERT SCHOUWENBURG, looking into the origins of the annexation