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In Spain 13th November 2023

Demonstrations throughout Spain to protest against PSOE deal: amnesty for Sánchez’s investiture

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…

In Spain 18th September 2023

Alfonso Guerra, former PSOE Nº 2: “The tendency towards Caesarism in the PSOE is evident”

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…

Spanish economy 15th September 2023

Sánchez expels veteran Nicolás Redondo from PSOE for criticising amnesty negotiations with Puigdemont

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…

Spanish Politics 19th June 2023

PP hands PSOE Barcelona mayoralty: “the trenches and blocs are over” says Nuñez Feijóo

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…

Spanish Politics 16th June 2023

PSOE lodges complaint against three newspapers for polls they get right

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…

Spanish Politics 19th January 2023

Former PSOE ministers “alarmed” at Sánchez government’s “desertion of constitutional commitments”

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…

Spanish Politics 22nd December 2022

Joaquín Leguina, former socialist president of Madrid, appeals his expulsion from the PSOE, which he accuses of a lack of “tolerance of criticism”

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…

Spanish Politics 13th December 2022

After eliminating the crime of sedition, the PSOE agrees with ERC to leave the embezzlement of pro-independence supporters unpunished

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…

Spanish economy 21st November 2022

Emiliano García Page, Socialist President of Castilla La Mancha: “The toll for the ERC votes in Madrid is very expensive for Spain and for the PSOE”

In an interview granted yesterday to the newspaper La Razón, the socialist leader explains that he speaks “from his conscience” for “many other socialists” who have the same opinion but do not have a voice. Q- What is the cost to Spain of repealing the crime of sedition? asks La RazónA- The current president of the Generalitat set 2030 as the date for a new illegal referendum, if I remember…

Spanish Politics 12th July 2022

Former PSOE Leaders Denounce Sánchez’s Law Of Democratic Memory And The Pact With Bildu. Current Leaders Keep Quiet And Maintain Their Salaries

Several historic leaders of the PSOE have signed a statement against the Democratic Memory bill and the agreement reached with EH Bildu, considering it a “distortion” of the historical truth by extending the “suspicious period” of the dictatorship until 1983. The letter, issued by the Association for the Defence of the Values of the Transition, is signed by former socialist leaders such as the former presidents of the Senate, Javier…

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