Catalan separatists drive hard bargain to support Sanchez after Spain election

By Joan Faus and Belén Carreño BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) - Spain may be heading for a repeat of Sunday's inconclusive election unless Catalan separatist parties compromise on their demands for an independence referendum in exchange for their support. After neither the right nor left bloc won enough seats to form a majority, Catalan separatist parties Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) and Junts have emerged as kingmakers. Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez needs their 14 parliamentary votes to support a left-wing coalition government. Junts - which controls seven seats and is the more h...