Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez aiming to defeat separatists in Catalan vote
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists are hoping to show Catalonia has turned away from its independence fixation by winning Sunday’s regional vote and defeating separatist leader Carles Puigdemont.