You're live with BBC News. Pedro Sanchez has won a parliamentary vote, giving him a second term as Spain's Prime Minister. The country is divided, though, over his decision to grant Catalan separatists an amnesty in return for their support. His socialist party came second in July's inconclusive election, but Mr. Sanchez reached deals with smaller parties to find enough votes to continue in government. Thousands of protesters rallied outside his party's headquarters on Wednesday, opposing the amnesty for Catalan Separatists. He won another term by a wafer thin margin of 179 votes to 171. Off more on this, we're joined by our news reporter, Imma-Drig, Guy Hedtko. Guy, welcome to you. Just explain this deal and why it's proving so controversial.

Well, Mr. Sanchez needed the support of a number of regional nationalist parties in order to form a majority in this Investiture vote. Among those nationalist parties whose support he needed were two Catalan nationalist parties. They demanded from him this amnesty, an amnesty which will benefit more than 300 Catalan nationalists who have been facing legal charges for their role in separatist activity over the last decade or so, in particular, an attempt to break away from Spain in 2017. All those charges will be dropped against those more than 300 Catalan nationalists. Now, opponents of this amnesty say it is illegal. It doesn't fit within the constitution that it gives preferential treatment to Catalonia, and that is bad for the rest of Spain or the other regions of Spain, and also that it encourages future separatist activity. For all those reasons, people have been taking to the streets, either outside the Socialist party headquarters over the last couple of weeks, or today outside Congress to protest against the Amnesty and essentially say that this new government, which is formed is not legitimate.

Yeah, five or so years ago, there were some really huge protests in the country that brought it to a halt almost, didn't they? Just explain who, and at that time, quite a few people were put in jail, weren't they? Those Catalan separatists, leaders. Just explain who might be given amnesty under this deal? How quickly?

Well, it's a very broad amnesty. As I said, a lot of the people who will be affected will be people who were involved in that 2017, a breakaway attempt that you mentioned there. For example, heads of schools who allowed their schools to be used for the referendum that was held back in 2017 in Catalonia against the wishes of the courts. But also, for example, Carlos Puigdemont, the former Catalan President who led that breakaway attempt and then who then fled to Belgium, where he's been ever since, he will benefit from this amnesty. Will several others who fled abroad as well. Those are some of the people who could benefit from this. We don't know exactly when the law will come into effect. It needs to go through Congress first. We expect it to be approved, but then it has to go through the Senate, and then judges have to introduce it case by case. All we've been told is that it should be introduced or implemented sometime next year. Now, the guess is that possibly in the spring, but it could face quite a bumpy ride in terms of legal appeals against it.

Okay, Guy, thank you for the update from Marjud there.