MADRID: Spain’s prime minister yesterday urged Catalonia to form a “viable” government after rejecting the region’s new administration which includes jailed and exiled former ministers who backed its independence push, reports AFP. “Catalonia needs a viable government not an unviable government,” Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy told a business forum in the northwestern city of Vigo.

“Laws are the rules of the game,” he added in his first public comments since Catalonia’s new president Quim Torra on Saturday named 13 “advisors” to his government.