00:00 backed by 179 lawmakers in the 350 seat lower house of parliament.
00:05 Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has been re-elected and will head the new
00:09 coalition government for another four years.
00:12 After failing to win the majority of votes in July's general election, Sanchez finally
00:16 got the backing of six smaller parties.
00:19 The socialist leader signed a deal that could secure amnesty for as many as 1,400 activists
00:25 and politicians involved in the attempt to separate Catalonia from Spain.
00:29 Your news reporter Jaime Velasquez has more.
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00:37 of rising from the ashes and forging great alliances to be again president of the government.
00:42 Sánchez is an expert in political balance, however this will be his second government in minority,
00:47 but his agreements with the Catalan separatists and the answer in the streets for the future Amnesty law
00:52 anticipate an extremely complicated legislature.
00:56 Sánchez's government was born with a sword of Damocles on its head.
01:00 Catalan separatists have already warned that they will let him fall if he does not keep his word to bring back
01:07 Carles Puigdemont to Spain and other Catalan activists.
01:10 It will not be easy, but if something has shown Pedro Sánchez during all these years,
01:15 it is his ability to always fall.
01:17 In Madrid, Jaime Velázquez, Euronews.
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