This Friday the electoral campaign, which will last two weeks, begins in Galicia. Next February 18, Galicians are called to the polls. The polls predict that Alfonso Rueda, the current president – ​​in office – of the PP will win. But if he does not achieve an absolute majority, the PSOE, which appears in the polls as the third force, would support the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) to support its…

The amnesty law returns to the Justice Commission by decision of the formation led by the former president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, with the sole purpose of converting a grace measure with exceptions into a “comprehensive amnesty” that protects all those who participated directly or indirectly in the separatist attempt and in the revolt against the judicial proceedings, and which, in addition, includes any type of crime…

If a man is worth his word, the Spanish Prime Minister’s share price dropped several notches yesterday when he changed his mind again and handed over the Pamplona mayor’s office to EH Bildu, the political heirs of ETA, after agreeing with them on a motion of censure of the current mayor, Cristina Ibarrola, of UPN. One day after the PSOE defended in Congress the Amnesty Law that it rejected until…

José Carlos Díez explains that last week the investiture session was resolved. The result of 23 July was uncertain and required an agreement with Junts and the complexity of negotiating with its leader in Brussels, where he has been on the run from justice since 2017. Since 1993 we have been accustomed to negotiations of this type to form majorities. However, there are two nuances that differentiate the current situation:…

Fernando González Urbaneja| The procedure adopted by the acting president Pedro Sánchez to impose an amnesty in favour of the Catalan independence movement is the culmination of “trágala” as a form of government that has little to do with the formalities of democracy. The dictionary defines trágala as “an act by which someone is forced to accept or endure something by force”. The amnesty that is so much talked about…

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and the acting Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, have ended a long-awaited meeting after little more than an hour with no agreements to conclude. During the meeting, the candidate designated by Felipe VI handed Sánchez a document ‘For the equality and welfare of all Spaniards’, an eleven-point agreement in which he asks for support for his investiture in order to tackle six State…

The European Union is receiving with a certain scepticism the Spanish government’s intention to make Catalan, Galician and Basque official languages within the institutions. Although most countries do not yet have a fixed position, especially because the situation has arisen during the holiday period – Brussels is closed in August – many hope that Spain’s political problems do not end up spilling over into the EU-27 club. This is the…

Fernando González Urbaneja| An “alcaldada” is an “imprudent or inconsiderate action executed by a mayor (or any authority) abusing the authority he or she exercises”. A more demanding reading of such an action might consider the hypothesis that an alcaldada can reach the character of prevarication (knowingly unjust resolution) or even embezzlement (misuse or abuse of resources of others). What the Bureau of Congress may resolve next week takes the…