Spanish Politics

Puigdemont

Puigdemont breaks with Sánchez and “moves into opposition”

Carles Puigdemont, the separatist leader of Junts – whose seven votes in Congress allowed for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez as president – announced yesterday that he considers the agreement, by which Junts per Catalunya’s deputies facilitated Pedro Sánchez’s investiture, to be broken and that he is moving into opposition. Puigdemont believes that Sánchez and the PSOE have repeatedly breached the commitments made and that there is therefore a lack…

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PP calls for immediate resignation of President of Congress for involvement in corrupt masks plot

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…