“We don’t have the last word because we are right. We are right because we have the last word,” a U.S. Supreme Court justice ironically explained. With that same implicit reasoning, six judges of the Spanish Constitutional Court (TC), directly appointed by the government, have declared—against the staunch opposition of the four magistrates appointed by the opposition—that the amnesty negotiated by Pedro Sánchez with the “procés” fugitives from Catalonia to…

The draft of the ruling on the amnesty that the magistrates appointed by the PSOE are going to approve in the Constitutional Court has now been revealed. After mentioning the word “reconciliation” 14 times – curiously, since yielding to Puigdemont’s blackmail has divided Spanish society in two – the rapporteur of the ruling, Inmaculada Galván, adopts Sánchez’s discourse – who always maintained that amnesty did not fit within the Constitution,…

“I have not left the party’s positions. They call me a dinosaur and they are right, but that allows me to say that, when I speak of the future, I do not speak of my own”… “Amnesty is intolerable, I say that as a member of an organisation that built the Constitution”… “If my party changes, I am not obliged to change. I think the same as the PSOE leadership…