Spanish political life today revolves around some audios in which Leire Díez, a PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) member who has held senior positions in various state-controlled companies (Correos, ENUSA…), offers a businessman who fled Spanish justice a favorable deal from the prosecutor’s office if he reveals information that could compromise the head of the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard. The UCO is the unit working with…

While the president of the government negotiates in Brussels for the rearmament of the European Union, which is strongly opposed by his coalition partners, in the Congress of Deputies, the PSOE loses vote after vote, losing the support of Junts (the party of Puigdemont) in some cases, ERC (the party of Oriol Junqueras) in others, and Sumar, the party led by Yolanda Díaz, the vice president of the government.In one…

There are no budgets, nor does the government expect there to be any, at least in the short term. The unblocking of dialogue with Junts, in exchange for new concessions such as shared competencies in immigration, has not managed to clear a legislature that is ‘barren in substantial reforms’… ‘The government’s major announcements, such as the reduction of working hours, housing assistance measures, the democratic regeneration plan, or the modernization…

Junts (Puigdemont’s party) rejected yesterday in Congress the ‘omnibus’ decree that included the revaluation of pensions, the extension of transport discounts, and aid for those affected by the DANA. However, the measure also contained other types of initiatives that it would have been incomprehensible for the political right to support, such as the suspension of evictions during 2025, which facilitates squatting. The rejection highlights the parliamentary weakness of the Executive…

The PSOE suffered around twenty defeats in the Plenary of Congress this Thursday, which sets a record for them in a single day (the previous record was eight). With this, they closed the first year of Government with 75 defeats that not only pertain to control initiatives without legal effects but also to laws.In the first round of votes during the plenary session, when amendments to the Law Against Food…

Fernando González Urbaneja | Pedro Sánchez’s new government follows the model of the previous one: on the one hand a coalition government with five portfolios from the minority group and 17 under the discipline of the president, including four described as independents, although very close to the PSOE and Sánchez. The 22 members of the cabinet belong to six parties (PSOE, PSC, Sumar, Comunes, Izquierda Unida and Más País). But…

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…