02-10-2017 17:48 via theguardian.com

Spanish PM will have lost votes – but maybe only in Catalonia

Spain’s press largely supportive of Mariano Rajoy’s handling of Catalan referendum, blaming regional leaders for the chaosWhile Catalans swapped horror stories about police beatings on Monday, the Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, continued to insist that the scenes at voting centres on Sunday were a reasonable reaction to an illegal referendum. But will pictures of bloodied grandmothers and allegations of police groping women turn his own supporters against Spain’s embatt
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