Catalonian

That mindset, he says, is how he approaches his job as head coach of FC Barcelona Atlétic, the reserve team of young players for the Catalonian club.

Sánchez, acting as a caretaker prime minister after inconclusive snap elections in July, backed the amnesties related to an illegal referendum that shook Spain in 2017 to receive the critical support of the Junts party, which supports Catalonian independence from Spain.

Senior socialist official Alicia Romero said her party had already shown it could win through after voters decided not to punish it over a deal that pardoned nine jailed Catalonian leaders in 2021.

Other sources told Reuters that socialist leaders were confident they would be able to win over most voters by getting concessions back from the Catalonian parties - including a promise not to repeat 2017's seismic unilateral independence referendum.

The Spanish alphabet includes the letter x, and early Catalonian involved several pronunciations of it depending on context, including a pronunciation akin to the modern sh.