Carles Puigdemont

Together he maintains that Sánchez and Aragonès agreed to advance the election to prevent the candidacy of Puigdemont Elections in Catalonia 12-M

The political and legal objective of Junts, Carles Puigdemont’s party, is now for the former Catalan president to be able to attend in person, as he wishes, to the investiture session of the new president of Catalonia who emerges from the May 12 elections, a session that could take place in mid-July, according to its … Read more

This is how the polls start in Catalonia | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

The early elections in Catalonia have taken pollsters by surprise: since the fall, hardly any polls have been published. But what information do we have? Below, we look at what the available polls say and speculate on how voters might be moving. The best current information is that of the Center for Opinion Studies (CEO), … Read more

The approval of the amnesty kicks off the Catalan pre-campaign | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

Those who advocated that the amnesty had to serve to give stability to Catalan politics, and by extension to Spanish politics, have come face to face with a new electoral advance in Catalonia. The approval on Thursday in Congress of the law that should make it possible to turn the page on the “repression” according … Read more

This is how the polls start in Catalonia | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

The early elections in Catalonia have taken pollsters by surprise: since the fall, hardly any polls have been published. But what information do we have? Below, we look at what the available polls say and speculate on how voters might be moving. The best current information is that of the Center for Opinion Studies (CEO), … Read more

Puigdemont’s lawyer says that the ‘ex-president’ is willing to return to Spain and be arrested | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

Gonzalo Boye, Carles Puigdemont’s lawyer and one of the legal architects of the amnesty law agreed by the Government with the pro-independence parties, has assumed that the former president, If he has to be sworn in, “he is willing to return” to Spain “and be arrested.” The arrest, if it happens, will not prevent “him … Read more

The Venice Commission calls for narrowing the temporal scope and coverage of the amnesty | Spain

The first round of the battle for the amnesty law in international bodies comes to an end. The Venice Commission, an advisory body of the Council of Europe – which is not part of the EU institutions – made up of experts in constitutional law, approved this morning by general consensus its opinion on the … Read more

Keys | When are the Catalan elections, why are they calling them now and what does Hard Rock have to do with all this | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

Catalonia will go to the polls early on May 12, nine months before the legislature expired. The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, announced this Wednesday the dissolution of the Parliament after seeing the approval of the 2024 budget project truncated and the content of which he had agreed with the PSC. These are the … Read more

Puigdemont: “With the electoral calendar in hand I will be able to be present at the investiture debate” | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

The general secretary of JxCat, Jordi Turull, has assumed that former president Carles Puigdemont will headline Junts in the Catalan elections on May 12. “We will go all out,” Turull assured. Puigdemont himself has avoided clarifying it from Strasbourg, at the headquarters of the European Parliament: “The day I make a decision on the matter, … Read more