Catalonia will hold early elections 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. “I assume responsibility for this … Read more
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
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
Almeida closes ranks with Ayuso and attacks the Government: “They want to divert attention” “What alarms me is the enrichment of Ábalos and Koldo, that is what alarms me,” said the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez Almeida, during an event with questions in the capital. “This is an attempt to divert attention from what … 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
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
The political agreement for the approval of the amnesty law has aroused mixed feelings among some of the people investigated or tried by the process Catalan independence movement. The beneficiaries of this exceptional measure move between the hope of leaving their judicial problems behind and the skepticism generated by the foreseeable resistance that its application … Read more
The Spanish right has always been reluctant to amnesties. In the middle of the transition, in 1977, Alianza Popular, precursor of the PP, abstained from voting on the law. For Antonio Carro, Franco’s former minister and elected deputy of the party led by Manuel Fraga, removing prisoners from prisons represented a kind of “taking of … Read more