SPAIN-POLITICS-CATALONIA

Catalan Popular Party - PPC leader Xavier Garcia Albiol (L) talks with 'Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya' - ERC (Republican Left of Catalonia) leader Marta Rovira (L) next to ERC member Raul Romeva (C) during Catalan's parliament inaugural session on January 17, 2018 in Barcelona. Catalan's parliament is due to sit for the first time since it was dissolved by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy following a banned independence referendum in the wealthy region of 7.5 million people. Madrid last year sacked Catalonia's parliament and government, suspended its treasured autonomy, and called new regional elections for December -- which pro-independence parties narrowly won, prolonging the country's worst political crisis in decades. (Photo by LLUIS GENE / AFP) (Photo by LLUIS GENE/AFP via Getty Images)