MADRID | The new Spanish president Mariano Rajoy has announced the names of the 13 ministers who will make up his cabinet, the smallest in the history of democracy. The new government will have just one vice-presidency (the former Economy minister was also vice-president) that will be held by Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, a 40-year old politician and the person known for being highly trusted by president Rajoy. Sáenz de…
MADRID | The Spanish press on Wednesday published reports of the newly elected Spanish President Mariano Rajoy’s trip to Marseille, where he will meet with US Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner and then, later on, jointly with French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Rajoy will also have the opportunity to meet with the president of the European Commission Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, and with the Polish…
Fernando González Urbaneja| Pedro Sánchez will announce his new government today, that of the 15th Legislature, which will not enjoy a single day of respite, harassed by his adversaries in the opposition and the coalition that supports him. So far, there have been five and a half years of Sánchez’s presidency over four legislatures: the 12th, which began with Rajoy’s presidency derailed by the first successful motion of censure in…
Former ministers, former presidents of Congress and the Senate and former senior officials of the PSOE and the PP have signed a manifesto against the amnesty and the investiture pacts of Pedro Sánchez in which they consider that they represent “a fracture of basic principles of the rule of law”.The text has been signed by eighteen ministers, most of them from the PP and UCD, but also including socialists such…
Alberto Nuñez Feijóo has shown the strength and unity of the party against the amnesty, 48 hours before his inauguration, with a massive event that brought together more than 40,000 people in Madrid, much more than initially expected. It has achieved the largest demonstration that the PP has ever held in its history. The unity was evidenced by the active presence of the former presidents of the Government, José María…
Fernando González Urbaneja | Feijóo, in his capacity as the person in charge of the investiture, has asked for a meeting with Sánchez in his capacity as head of the PSOE, the second most voted party. What is anomalous is that such contact was ignored, even though it serves no purpose. It’s not true that rubbing together makes love, since, unfortunately, there is no chemistry between these two figures. Sánchez’s…
The president of the Euzkadi Buru Batzar of the PNV, Andoni Ortuzar, telephoned the president of the Partido Popular on Monday night, who had tried to contact him earlier in the day. Ortuzar informed Núñez Feijóo of the PNV’s refusal to begin talks with a view to facilitating his investiture as President of the Spanish Government, a decision agreed at the meeting held by the EBB after the 23J elections….