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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…

In Spain 10th September 2025

Government to suffer new parliamentary defeat today, at start of political season

Unless something changes—and there’s no sign that it will—the coalition government will face another parliamentary defeat today, at the start of the political season, which will clearly highlight its enormous parliamentary weakness. The bill to reduce the 38-hour workweek by half an hour, drafted by Yolanda Díaz, the leader of the communist wing of the government and head of the Ministry of Labor, will be rejected with the 177 votes…

In Spain 3rd September 2025

Government turns regional debt write-off demanded by partners into new attack against PP, which rejects it

While Puigdemont demanded an amnesty from Sánchez in exchange for his support for the investiture, ERC demanded a write-off of the Catalan government’s debt. Sánchez accepted both agreements, and yesterday, the Council of Ministers approved the draft law that will allow a write-off of €83.252 billion for all regions except the Basque Country and Navarra, which are not under the common regime. To make the measure more palatable, the government…

In Spain 1st September 2025

Spain: An Incorrigible Triumphalism

A.A. | “It’s sad, for example, that a good idea, the Minimum Living Income (IMV), hasn’t worked… The reality today is that fewer people are receiving the IMV than were previously receiving the minimum incomes offered by the Autonomous Communities.” This confession was made to us a couple of months ago by a member of parliament from Sumar, the PSOE’s coalition partner in the government, over dessert. He admitted sadly…

In Spain 26th August 2025

Government: no budget and over 40 laws stalled due to lack of parliamentary support

The Congress will have to vote on more than forty bills this coming session. These are important laws for the executive branch, ranging from the reduction of the working day to the response to tariffs, and evictions for vulnerable families… all while the 2026 General State Budgets—Spain is currently operating with the 2023 budget from the previous legislature—remain up in the air. Support from Congress for the 44 bills currently…

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