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One day after resumption of discussions with regional leaders, the government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez met on Friday (21) in Barcelona, under the control of a powerful and surrounded police force many events.
"What we came here to do is an act of affection, of appreciation of Catalonia" and Barcelona, said the spokeswoman of the Socialist Executive Isabel Celaá to the end of the year.
With slogans such as "we will be ungovernable", several independence groups have called for acts to block Barcelona and try to prevent what they view as a "provocation" of Sanchez.
In addition to peaceful demonstrations, clashes between separatists and police resulted in 13 arrests and 62 injuries, including 35 agents, according to regional authorities.
Hooded protesters threw stones, bottles and firecrackers at the police.
During the day, the so-called defense committees of the Republic (CDR) crossed several roads in Catalonia and, in the afternoon, 40,000 separatists occupied the Paseo de Gracia in Barcelona , with the motto "Let's get rid of the diet". In the middle of the crowd, huge yellow and white letters formed the words "Freedom" and "Peace".
"We should have knocked on the table, stop the country (economically, Referring to Catalonia.) We do not have guns, the only thing we can do is to touch their pockets", told AFP Joan Ventura, a 72-year-old retiree who participated in the protest.
The government meeting is a year later. that the regional elections have revalidated the separatist majority in the regional parliament, dissolved in October 2017 by the conservative government of Mariano Rajoy after a unilateral declaration of independence.
The Council of Ministers began shortly after 10 am (7 am) in the Llotja de Mar Palace, near the Mediterranean coast
Two measures were approved for the following year. They will be adopted by decree: an increase of 22% of the minimum wage and 2.25% of the salary of civil servants.
A first person was arrested in an avenue of the city with material "that could be used for the manufacture of an incendiary or explosive device", according to the Catalan police, Mossos d'Esquadra
. A reinforced security system was put in place to protect the meeting venue, with several barriers erected hundreds of meters from the building to keep protesters away.
The image contrasts with Thursday's meeting between Sánchez and the president of the region.
The meeting between the two parties ended with a joint communiqué in which the two governments pledged to "establish an effective dialogue" in order to "promote a democratic response to citizens' requests for legal certainty . "
At the meeting held in an elegant palace in Barcelona after days of negotiations on the format, the two leaders went
" It is up to us all to open a new stage "Sánchez said at a dinner with businessmen. He then returned in search of Torra.
The meeting was criticized by the Conservative opposition. Pablo Casado, leader of the Popular Party, blamed Sánchez for treating Torre of "virtually as a head of state" and declared that he felt "shameful".
In the streets, the spirits also turned against Catalan separatist power for this dialogue,
"For me, dialogue is a step backwards. trying to dialogue, this moment has pbaded. It seems to me that it was only a staging to calm the moods for today, "said protester Mariona Godia, 35 years old.
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