With a turnout of 49%, Alberto Nuñez Feijóo’s Partido Popular has increased its lead over the PSOE to 4 points (700,000 votes) (when in the general elections a year ago the lead was less than 1.5 points) and has won 22 of the 61 MEPs that Spain sends to the European Parliament. Yesterday, Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE held on, with 30% of the vote and 20 seats, largely at the expense…
And a minister, Oscar Puente, replies that it is he who is “on the fringes of the PSOE”. “I win elections. I would like others to do the same” (to avoid having to make shameful pacts to keep the PSOE in La Moncloa), said García Page, socialist president of Castilla La Mancha. García Page assures, against the new doctrine of the Government and the PSOE, that “there is no good…
Spain is baying against the Amnesty Law that Pedro Sánchez has agreed with the Catalan pro-independence supporters in exchange for his continuance in the Moncloa for four more years. Hundreds of thousands of people, called by the PP, gathered in all the capitals of Spain’s provinces to condemn the concessions that Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE has agreed to with the pro-government leaders of Catalonia and the Basque Country in order to…
The former deputy prime minister and historic leader of the PSOE Alfonso Guerra has criticised the “evident tendency to Caesarism” in the PSOE as it is the secretary general who chooses the people who make up the party leadership or those who make up the lists for the congresses. This he has indicated in an interview published this Sunday by ‘The Objective’, collected by Europa Press, in which he has…
Early yesterday afternoon, the expulsion of Nicolás Redondo Terreros, a veteran party leader in the Basque country, from the PSOE was announced, a decision taken by the Federal Executive Committee “for his repeated contempt” for the party. The former leader of the Basque socialists said in a statement that he had learned of the news from the media. “I was not aware of it, nor do I have any communication…
Alberto Núñez Feijóo displayed his territorial power yesterday, Sunday, in the Retiro Park in Madrid, when he was accompanied by all the barons of his party, those who govern and those who will do so in a few days, as an example of what can happen on 23 July, in a general election. And Núñez Feijóo dedicated the event to defending the agreements reached by the PP to govern in…
The Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) presented this Thursday before the Central Electoral Board (JEC) a complaint against ABC, El Mundo and El Español, and the opinion institutes that carry out their electoral polls -GAD3, Sigma2 and Sociométrica, respectively-, a measure that acquires special relevance when it comes to the main party that supports the Government. The Socialists’ number three, Santos Cerdán, demands from the accused, in the light of…
A total of 255 personalities have signed a manifesto against the government in which they criticise the recent reforms it has carried out to the Penal Code and the attempt to modify the system of election of the Constitutional Court, warning that the regime of freedoms could fail if this governmental and legislative dynamic continues. The manifesto calls on the PSOE to recover its historic project, which led it to…
Joaquín Leguina has appealed his expulsion from the PSOE, arguing that the party to which he has belonged for 45 years “has always been characterised by a high degree of tolerance for criticism and internal discrepancy”. And in the “freedom of conscience and expression” that “protects” him as a militant, the former president of the Community of Madrid bases his request for the disciplinary proceedings that have concluded with the…
The reform of embezzlement agreed on Monday between the PSOE and ERC leaves a way open for some pro-independence leaders to avoid prison. Specifically, around 30 defendants accused of the pro-Crime, still awaiting trial, could avoid prison with the new text. These are the group of ex-officials and businessmen close to pro-independence supporters prosecuted by the 13th Court of Instruction of Barcelona for the preparations for the illegal referendum of…