All against Salvador Illa. The surprise electoral call in Catalonia, by the work and will of the president of the Generalitat, the Republican Pere Aragonès, and without evidence of the collusion between ERC and PSC that Junts per Catalunya denounces, will place the socialist candidate as a stark target of the independentists. The former Minister … Read more
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
The hardness in Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s tone advances one step more every day. Only 24 hours after Congress approved the amnesty law by an absolute majority, the leader of the PP appeared before his people at a party event in Ávila, where he made all kinds of statements against the Government. “If citizens are not … Read more
The final report of the Venice Commission this Friday endorsed the essence and spirit of the amnesty law. But the advisory and non-executive body of the Council of Europe then lists a series of criticisms against the norm approved this Thursday in Congress, such as its urgent processing or the extension of the temporal scope … Read more
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
The chips on the Spanish political board received a new shakeup this Wednesday from Catalonia, and not because of something already volcanic, such as the amnesty law, which is being voted on this Thursday in Congress. In a new unforeseen turn, the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, called early elections for May 12 after … Read more
The agreement on the amnesty law reached this week between the PSOE and the Catalan independence parties has caught the president, Pere Aragonès, in the midst of negotiations to approve the accounts of the Generalitat, in his last year of legislature. At the head of a Government in a minority in the Parliament, he maintains … Read more
In the final stretch of the parliamentary processing of the Amnesty Law, the protest in the street has lost steam this Saturday. Whether due to the unpleasant weather in Madrid (intense cold and intermittent rain) or due to fatigue, the concentration in the central Plaza de Cibeles has not been as successful as its predecessors, … Read more