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Alejo Vidal-Quadras – who had also led the conservative Popular Party in Catalonia – was shot in Madrid hours after Spain’s acting prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, agreed a controversial deal between his Socialist Party and a Catalan separatist party that is set to give him another term in office

Alejo Vidal-Quadras, formerly of PP and Vox, reportedly in stable condition after attack by masked gunman

Agreement has triggered protests and main opposition party condemns it as ‘shameful and humiliating’.

Socialist party wins separatist support with offer that has provoked furious opposition, protests and questions from Brussels

About 7,000 demonstrated against deal plan for Catalan separatists with 30 police and others hurt in violence

Members of Pedro Sánchez’s party vote 87% in favour of proposal to form government backed by smaller parties

Heir to throne pledges allegiance to constitution at congress in Madrid on her 18th birthday

Two parties vow labour reforms in effort to shore up support – but still need Catalan separatists’ backing to form government

Spain has been stuck in political limbo since July’s general election.

Letter: Clyde Jeavons recalls a project that began in the 1980s to restore Technicolor masterpieces such as The Red Shoes

Tens of thousands demonstrate in Spanish region’s capital as Pedro Sánchez weighs move in attempt to form government