Amnesty without consensus | News from Catalonia

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

Sánchez sees the legislature consolidated | Spain

Despite the fact that it was a decisive day for the Government, Pedro Sánchez this Thursday allowed his main collaborators, with Félix Bolaños at the helm, to publicly show the euphoria that dominates the president’s team after the amnesty agreement that paves the way Furthermore, to the Budgets. Sánchez has concentrated on his trip to … Read more

The PP asks the European Commissioner for Justice to rule on the criminal case for terrorism against Puigdemont | Spain

The European Parliament is going to request, at the request of the European People’s Party, the appearance of the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, before the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (Libe) of the European Parliament to debate the case opened by terrorism in the Spanish Supreme Court against former president … Read more

Sánchez and Boric exhibit progressive harmony and reduction of inequality against the extreme right

A wave of far-right sweeps through America and Europe. From Argentina to the Netherlands, from the US to Italy, with the upcoming European elections as a decisive moment, the rise of these positions seems evident. Two of the world leaders who represent precisely the opposite, that is, progressive governments that are trying to stop this … Read more

Sánchez boasts of stability after the amnesty pact: “There is a Government for a while, there will be four more years no matter who it is” | Spain

Pedro Sánchez is convinced that the amnesty definitively consolidates the legislature, and assumes that he will have Budgets in 2024, 2025 and 2026 and will finish his four years in office, in the face of an opposition that daily maintains that the Government’s situation is untenable. Traveling through Chile, where he concludes a Latin American … Read more

Political day of March 6, 2024 | Patxi López (PSOE): The amnesty will serve “to have a Government that governs with tranquility” | Spain

The PSOE considers calling Almeida to the congressional mask investigation commission Socialist sources have affirmed this Wednesday that the party is studying that the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez Almeida, appears in the investigative commission of the Congress of Deputies on the thousands of emergency contracts that “all administrations” signed during the dramatic pandemic … Read more

Sánchez will change the amnesty law to give more guarantees to Junts | Spain

After an intense month of negotiations, PSOE, ERC and Junts have closed the agreement on the amnesty law that consolidates the legislature and opens the door to the Budgets. The three groups announced this Wednesday an agreement for an amendment that will once again modify the rule that is being voted on this Thursday in … Read more

González Pons cools the agreement with the Government on the Judiciary in the face of the “humiliation” of the amnesty law | Spain

This Wednesday the PP has slipped the threat of breaking off the negotiation with the PSOE on the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) if the socialists approve with Junts the proposed amnesty law for those accused of the process Catalan independence movement. The deputy secretary of institutional action of the popular … Read more