Link Securities | The Bank of Spain (BdE) published on Monday that the debt of the Public Administrations as a whole increased by 1.5% in June compared to May, an increase equivalent to €24,769 million, to €1.624 billion, which is a new all-time record. According to the BdE, using nominal GDP for the last four quarters, the debt-to-GDP ratio stood at 108.2% at the end of 1H2024. According to the…
The judge has summoned Begoña Gómez, under investigation for corruption in the private sector and influence peddling (she wrote letters of recommendation for her partners’ companies to win public tenders) and the news, expected, has unleashed a political storm five days before the European elections. The PP has called for the resignation of the prime minister, who has responded with a new “letter to the citizens”: “What they did not…
Despite the poor results of the pro-independence parties, far short of an absolute majority in Parliament, Junts believes it has a chance of governing. If this Sunday, former president Carles Puigdemont already suggested that he would make Pedro Sánchez’s dependence on JxCat’s seven deputies in Congress count, this Monday he has gone a step further and announced that he will try to opt for the investiture. “I can articulate a…
Salvador Illa, the candidate of the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC), with 27.9% of the vote and 42 seats, has won the elections in Catalonia. Carles Puigdemont and Junts obtained 21.5% of the votes and 35 seats, but their great partner in the “procés”, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), which until now had been in charge of the government of the Generalitat, has suffered a debacle and has been left…
The PNV has won the elections in the Basque Country with 365,634 votes (35.2%) and 27 seats (four fewer than it had); the same 27 seats (six more than it had) won by EH Bildu, the heir of the ETA terrorists (who laid down their arms in 2011) and which obtained 32.5% of the votes. The Basque Parliament will therefore be the most sovereigntist in history, with 68% of the…
The PSOE has managed to unblock the amnesty law after a road full of obstacles. For the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, it is a “source of pride”, but along the way the Socialists have left themselves several wounds in the form of concessions to Junts per Catalunya. It is the price to be paid to breathe life into the legislature that has begun in fits and starts and…
The Balearic government presided by Francina Armengol, now president of the Congress, paid €3.7 million to the corrupt scheme of Koldo García (then advisor to the all-powerful Minister of Transport and Secretary of Organisation of the PSOE, José Luis Ábalos, who last week left the PSOE and joined the mixed group in Congress) a week after its technicians verified that the masks purchased were of poor quality and unusable for…
For her part, the vice-president of the Government and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, obtained 4.4% of the votes in her town (Fene) and did not win a single deputy in the regional assembly, so the memes ran last night through the social networks: “Sumar and Podemos double their results to the previous elections: In the previous elections they got nothing, and in these, nothing at all”. Nor did the…
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…