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The leader of Spain's PP, Pablo Casado, has this Friday proposed modifying the 1981 Symbols Law "to require that public roads are not used for propaganda and, in the case of Catalonia, with symbols which are anti-democratic", a reference to the yellow loops symbolising support for the pro-independence leaders in pretrial detention. "The institutions must avoid what's happening in the streets of Catalonia," he said.

In his closing speech for the Andalusian PP's event to start its political year in Álora, Casado accused the central government of allowing "the tension and political confrontation of reaching the streets", whilst he guaranteed that the country's "constitutionalist parties" that there will be no problems with the PP: "We want to go together, with Cs and with Catalonia's PSOE, because we have the same objective: recovering Catalonia's harmony and prosperity".

He continued: "together we have to demand that Catalonia's institutions do their jobs", since "we can't only tell the public to do the work in the streets the institutions aren't doing".

Casado said that PP is "with the brave ones who freely decide to remove these symbols which offend them from the streets but, at the same time, our basic task is to demand the institutions to do it".