The PP leadership is debating whether to support Dolors Montserrat or keep Alejandro Fernández in the Catalan candidacy | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

The PP candidacy in Catalonia has been shaken six days after the announcement of the electoral advance. The national leadership faces two complex scenarios: the election of its candidate, under the shadow of an internal conflict, and the negotiation with Ciudadanos to run on a single list on May 12, which has become complicated in … Read more

Junts entrusts Puigdemont with neutralizing the dispersion of its political strategy | News from Catalonia

The calendar has begun to count down the days left for the Catalan elections on May 12. He president Pere Aragonès officially signed the decree calling the elections this Monday and each party takes positions for the electoral fight. At the start, Junts per Catalunya has managed to attract attention with an advertisement by its … Read more

Hard Rock: a controversial economic injection for southern Catalonia that destabilizes two governments | News from Catalonia

The negotiation of the Catalan budgets and its recent failed outcome has been conditioned by the political tug-of-war around a hotel complex with a mega-casino that the multinational Hard Rock intends to build in Salou (Tarragona). The project is full of big figures: 2,000 jobs, an investment of 700 million euros and with the capacity … Read more

Puigdemont exhibits his negotiation with the PSOE to break into the Catalan electoral pre-campaign | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

Carles Puigdemont plans to reveal over the next week whether he agrees to be the Junts per Catalunya candidate for the Catalan elections on May 12. Internally, at JxCat there is little doubt that the former president will be the headliner and the commitment to give all the relevance to Puigdemont is total. To get … Read more

Yolanda Díaz marks ground against the PSOE | Spain

The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, left an image this Thursday open to political interpretation: sitting on the blue bench and with a very serious gesture while Pedro Sánchez, María Jesús Montero and Félix Bolaños applauded the approval of the amnesty law. The leader of Sumar has also made clear gestures in the last two … Read more

Pere Aragonès: “After the amnesty, the legislature can move forward if the commitments on financing and plurinationality are met” | News from Catalonia

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

Pere Aragonès: “After the amnesty, the legislature can move forward if the commitments on financing and plurinationality are met” | News from Catalonia

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

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