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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 27th February 2026

Sánchez suffers new defeat in Parliament, where his majority has long been lost

The Government suffered another defeat in Congress yesterday, proving once again that it lacks a parliamentary majority even to carry out the minimal legislative activity required to survive. The Executive failed, for the second time, to pass what it calls the “social shield” due to the refusal of Junts (along with the PP and Vox) to accept the extension established during the Covid era, which prevents property owners from evicting…

Spanish Politics 28th August 2023

Dual-use votes in Catalonia

Fernando González Urbaneja | The “alcaldada” of the Congress that must be approved this Monday to allow ERC and Junts to form their own parliamentary group, with the economic and parliamentary advantages it entails, will use on this occasion a cruder formula than the previous ones. On other occasions, the number of deputies of the pretender was completed in order to reach the number of deputies foreseen in the regulations…

Spanish economy, Spanish Politics 25th November 2022

A Debased Parliamentarism

Fernando González Urbaneja | What has been heard these days (and others) in Parliament (Congress and Senate) would make you cry, it goes beyond bad manners and rudeness; fortunately they have only been words, although degenerating could go further. It has already happened in other parliaments and it happened in ours a little less than a century ago. It is unimaginable today what he called the dialectic of the pistols,…