Spain grants Basque, Catalan and Galician languages parliamentary status

MPs from People's party and far-right Vox stage walkout in protest at recognition of co-official languages

Spanish MPs have been able to address congress in Basque, Catalan and Galician for the first time after the country's Socialist-led caretaker government agreed to smaller parties' demands for the the three regional languages to be granted official parliamentary status.

The change - which is intended to help the chamber progress along the path of linguistic plurality" - was requested by the Catalan pro-independence parties on whose support the acting prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, is relying to form a new government after July's general election resulted in a hung parliament.