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. The prime minister meanwhile warned that the new Catalan government should fully respect the law. This statement was a reference to the former government´s defiance on October 1, when it went held a referendum on independence despite a constitutional ban.
12-23-2017, 01:00 PM
Rajoy rejects Puigdemont call to meet
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