Word: rovira
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...designed to divide Spain's main parties in their shared approach to terrorism and to try to draw Catalonia into the Basque conflict. The announcement is politically embarrassing for Maragall, because it followed a recent secret meeting between the leader of his governing partner, Josep Lluís Carod-Rovira of the Republican Left party, and two ETA leaders in Perpignan, France. (ETA has killed more than 800 people throughout Spain over the past three decades, more than 50 of them in Catalonia.) Carod-Rovira denies negotiating for a cease-fire - or anything else - but was forced to resign...