Sanchez pledges to resolve Catalan dispute as he seeks backing as PM

Spain’s acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez, seeking parliament’s backing to form a government, set out his priorities on Saturday and tried to lower temperatures in the bitter debate over Catalonia by calling for dialogue.

Spain has been in political gridlock without a proper government for most of last year after two inconclusive elections.

“Spain is not going to break, the Constitution is not going to break. What is going to break is the blockade of a progressive government democratically elected by the Spanish people,” Sanchez told deputies in opening remarks as he kicked off several days of debates and voting.

Earlier this week,