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…

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…