Does he believe it or is he simply stammering? The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, gave a new gem during the press conference after his meeting with King Felipe VI in Palma, Mallorca. Asked about his position on the situation in Catalonia, which is especially tense because of the Spanish government's refusal to negotiate terms for an independence referendum with the Catalan government, Rajoy answered: “I have been to Catalonia many times this year, I have lots of trips abroad, I go to lots of places, but I can assure you that it's the problem that matters the most to me currently.”
"He ido bastantes veces este año a Cataluña, tengo muchos viajes al extranjero, he ido a muchos sitios."
— Bernat Castro (@Berlustinho) 8 of August 2017
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Deliberately or not, Rajoy associates his trips to Catalonia with his trips abroad, so the creator of the famous sentence “Catalans do things” now has one more jewel for his long list of linguistic lapses.