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In Spain 29th June 2026

Sánchez closes parliamentary term with only seven laws passed and 80 pending

The evident lack of support in both the Congress and the Senate has resulted in the worst full parliamentary term across Pedro Sánchez’s three legislative periods. The Government has only managed to pass the Sustainable Mobility Law, the Customer Service Law, the Air Navigation Law, the Sustainable Economy Promotion Law, and the Organic Law on Repeat Offending. Furthermore, during the last plenary session on June 25th, it succeeded in passing…

In Spain, Relevant News Item 25th June 2026

King speaks of “dark days” while Sánchez entrenches himself in La Moncloa

The country is gridlocked. And yesterday this became clear to everyone. Yesterday, the Prime Minister appeared before Congress to answer for all the corruption cases surrounding him—within his family, his party, and his Government. And as expected, he limited himself to asserting that “he neither knew about it, nor would he have tolerated it.” Furthermore, although Puigdemont’s party—whom Sánchez granted amnesty in exchange for secure investiture—urged him to “do like…

In Spain 27th May 2026

Government awards TV channel to Its Allies

The Council of Ministers has finalized the award of a new nationwide Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) license. As anticipated within the sector, the free-to-air frequency has been granted to the Siete consortium (Servicios Integrados de Entretenimiento Televisivo). This company is managed by Andrés Varela Entrecanales and is linked to a group of Prisa shareholders assembled around Global Alconaba—a business alliance led by the so-called “rebels” of the Prisa Group, who…

In Spain 19th March 2026

The Indra Soap Opera: Government now demands Chairman’s resignation to authorize purchase of his company

Four years ago, the Government took control of a publicly traded company, INDRA, through SEPI (the State-Owned Industrial Holding Company). To do so, it had the help of the owner of the newspaper El País and two brothers, the Escribanos, owners of a small company dedicated to manufacturing defense vehicles. There was a reshuffle at the top, a change of control without a mandatory takeover bid (OPA)—as required by law—and…

In Spain 29th January 2026

Spanish government launches 35-hour working week for State Public Employees

While doctors are notifying the Ministry of Health of strikes and mobilizations due to—amongst other issues—mandatory 24-hour shifts, the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Civil Service, led by Oscar López, has informed the CCOO and UGT unions that it is initiating the procedure to implement a 35-hour workweek within the General State Administration. This move aims to fulfill the commitments signed in the “Framework Agreement for the 21st Century Administration.”…

In Spain, Relevant News Item 28th January 2026

That Determination to Sow Discord

J.A. | “Becoming legal in Spain: five months… An appointment with the dermatologist: 16 months.” Spanish social media was flooded with messages of this kind upon learning how the Government approved—via Royal Decree-Law, meaning without the need for Parliamentary approval—a regularization process that could benefit more than half a million undocumented immigrants (out of an estimated 840,000 currently in Spain). It will be enough to prove residency in Spain prior…

Spanish Politics 16th January 2026

Sánchez runs out of narrative; neither governs nor stops Vox

Aurelio Medel (5Días) | The Prime Minister lacks the support to tackle serious problems (such as housing), and the far right is the primary beneficiary of this inaction. Every week, the Government proposes new regulations, marketing them as solutions to real problems of varying urgency and complexity, but they ultimately come to nothing. This past week, it was the regional financing reform (rejected even by regions governed by the PSOE)…

In Spain 7th November 2025

Junts assures “legislature is blocked”: no budgets, no more laws

Miriam Nogueras, Junts spokesperson in the Congress—where the fugitive Puigdemont’s party maintains seven decisive deputies, without whom the investiture majority falls into a minority with 172 out of 350 deputies—announced yesterday that her party will not vote with the Government again after the half-dozen laws they have already agreed upon pass through Parliament. She will not vote in favor of either the 2026 Budgets (Spain continues to extend the 2023…

In Spain 26th September 2025

Sánchez Goes Back on His Word Again, Now Saying He Will Seek a Third Term

On September 1, 2014, Pedro Sánchez announced that the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) would hold a convention on democratic renewal in which, among other measures, his party would propose limiting the terms of Prime Ministers to two legislatures, a maximum of eight years. This initiative was intended to “banish the old politics of always.” It followed the self-imposed term limits of José María Aznar—who chose not to continue after…

In Spain 24th September 2025

An impossible legislature: Government suffers third consecutive defeat while Sánchez’s brother heads for trial on influence peddling charges

Yesterday, with the Prime Minister at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Spanish politics experienced another grotesque day. In the Congress of Deputies, the government saw its initiative to delegate immigration powers to Catalonia fail. This was one of the many concessions the PSOE has been forced to make to try to maintain the support of Junts, a “traditionally right-wing” party that offered its support to Sánchez so…

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