title: Spain PM calls on Catalan leader to drop independence plans to avoid 'greater evils'
text: MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called on Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont on Thursday to abandon plans to unilaterally declare the region s independence from Spain  to avoid greater evils . In an interview with Spanish news agency EFE, Rajoy said the solution to the Catalan crisis was a prompt return to legality and  a statement as soon as possible that there will not be a unilateral declaration of independence, because that will also avoid greater evils,  Rajoy said, without elaborating. 