(Corrects third paragraph to say nine leaders, not 11, were pardoned) MADRID (Reuters) – Opponents of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez accused him of putting his party before his country after he announced the reform of a law that is set to benefit leaders of the Catalan independence movement. Sanchez on Thursday evening announced a proposal to change the law of sedition, which was applied in 2019 to hand out heavy jail sentences to Catalan separatists for their attempt to break the region away from Spain two years earlier. Sanchez last year pardoned the nine leaders who had been sentenced…