ANALYSIS-Catalan separatists drive hard bargain to support Sanchez after Spain election

Junts - which controls seven seats and is the more hardline of the two on the subject of independence - said on Monday its conditions for helping Sanchez get over the line in an investiture vote were permission to hold a referendum in Catalonia on independence and an amnesty for all separatists facing legal charges related to the region's 2017 failed independence bid. Junts was founded that same year by former Catalan regional head Carles Puigdemont, who is living in self-imposed exile in Belgium to avoid prosecution in Spain for leading the breakaway attempt.