Pedro Sánchez undoubtedly has many problems to face amid the flood of legal cases involving his family and political circle. But one of these concerns, according to sources at Moncloa, is not the possibility that the PNV and Junts join a motion of no confidence promoted by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, with the indispensable votes of the far-right Vox, to try to overthrow the Prime Minister.
The King entered this Tuesday the plenary hall of the Palau de Congressos in Barcelona welcomed by applause, surrounded by the president of the Cercle, Teresa García Milà, and the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, and urged Europe to wake up and regain its pride above the criticisms it receives in these turbulent times. “To the most skeptical, it should be reminded that one of the constants of the construction of united Europe has been to make real what seemed a distant aspiration, even a utopia. The entire integration process has been a journey from the improbable and extremely complex to the real and tangible.”
The Partido Popular has been pressuring Junts and the PNV for months to join their votes with those of the PP and Vox and support in the Congress of Deputies an “instrumental” motion of no confidence, with Alberto Núñez Feijóo as the candidate for the presidency of the Government. The motion of no confidence is a mechanism that the law provides to withdraw confidence from the president, in this case Pedro Sánchez, and yesterday Feijóo specified his offer to the two nationalist parties: the motion would be to accelerate the calling of elections and in the government appointed once he is elected president, Vox would not be included. But nothing guarantees that these two conditions – elections in the short term and a government without Vox – will be met. It is rather an act of faith that is asked of the two parties.
The Government of Spain has responded to the complaints from the autonomous communities and has approved this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers a royal decree-law that includes advance payments corresponding to 2026, so that they can be allocated to the maintenance of public services in each of the territories.
The impact of the war in Iran on the energy system has put Europe in front of the mirror. Is it possible to maintain supply on the continent in the face of global-scale disruptions like those experienced in the Strait of Hormuz? The Annual Meeting of the Cercle d’Economia brought together this Tuesday two heavyweights of the sector in Spain, the president of Naturgy, Francisco Reynés, and that of Repsol, Antonio Brufau, to resolve this question and many others. And their answer to this first question is clear: Spain can withstand the “shock,” but only as long as the conflict does not last too long.
In Washington, thousands of journalists work, but there is one who seems to get almost all the exclusives: Barak Ravid.
The chief of the Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) of the Mossos d’Esquadra, Josep Naharro, stated this Tuesday that the investigators are working with the hypothesis that the gunman who on Sunday afternoon emptied the magazine of his automatic pistol in Badalona, had the objective to “intimidate” a rival family in the drug market. And that “it was an accident” that one of the bullets ricocheted and injured a 10-year-old girl who was near Còrdoba street, in the Sant Roc neighborhood.
Catalonia was the top tourist destination in Spain in the month of April. The autonomous community received 1.88 million visitors, 7.7% more than in the same month of the previous year. It represents 20.8% of the total visitors to the country in the fourth month of the year.
Anger in Kenya against the U.S. over Ebola. The plan of Donald Trump’s administration to build a quarantine center to house Americans who have been exposed to the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo or Uganda has outraged many Kenyans, who took to the streets to protest a measure that, they believe, puts the country’s public health at risk.
The image of a safe haven of the Persian Gulf countries, on which their opulent economies were based, has been disrupted by the Iran war. Maintaining the perception of security has become an imperative for these monarchies, even if it infringes on the freedom of expression of their citizens. Amnesty International (AI) denounced on Monday a “campaign of repression,” resulting in more than a thousand detainees accused of sympathizing with Iran during the United States and Israel war against the Islamic Republic.