Vox would obtain today a minimum of sixty deputies in a general election, according to the latest published polls. They are at the 18% mark, almost six points above the results obtained in the general elections of July 23, 2023, from which this…
Not even in their best forecasts did the independence movement believe that the European court’s ruling on the amnesty law would be so clear-cut. The delaying maneuver by the Spanish judges – not only the Supreme Court – has been challenged by the setback dealt by the…
The Amnesty Law was the key to the start of this legislature, which ends with the endorsement of the EU Court of Justice. That law deepened the confrontation between a part of the judiciary and Sánchez’s Government. Now, Minister Félix Bolaños claims the effects of the amnesty and demands that it be fully applied as soon as possible.
The slow digestion of the Amnesty law has received a European tonic this week, an herbal liqueur from Luxembourg. An unequivocal ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has endorsed the law approved by the Congress of Deputies on May 20, 2024, and sealed by the Spanish Constitutional Court on June 26, 2025.
With the endorsement of the European justice system for the amnesty, the secretary general of Junts, Jordi Turull, raised a glass of cava on Thursday before the party leadership: “May the next toast, here or on Mallorca street, be made by the president and the consellers.” Junts has become accustomed to…
The judge in Madrid who will try Alberto González Amador, partner of the Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso, for tax fraud has communicated that given the “overload and circumstances weighing on the Court” the date for the trial is still pending, once the opening of the oral trial was already agreed upon for September 2025.
The Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard suspects that the former organization secretary of the PSOE Santos Cerdán handled cash money outside his bank accounts. However, it has not been able, or at least for now, to find those five million euros in kickbacks that Supreme Court magistrate Leopoldo Puente mentioned when he sent him to unconditional prison a year ago.
In the midst of political turmoil in Madrid due to the recent conviction of the brother of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, or the case related to his wife, Begoña Gómez, the European Commission draws attention to Spain for the “limited progress” in fighting high-level corruption cases and calls for a national register of lobbyists. It does so in its annual report on the Rule of Law, where, although it recognizes certain advances in processing major cases, it highlights “limited progress” in strengthening the rules on conflicts of interest and officeholders in executive functions, and warns that measures against corruption or the regulation of “lobbies” have not yet yielded the expected results in Spain.
The Director General of the Civil Guard Mercedes González has denied having participated in the plan promoted by the former PSOE organization secretary Santos Cerdán and the party’s so-called ‘plumber’ to destroy judicial cases affecting the party and the environment of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.
Both Junts and the PSOE –also Esquerra Republicana– expected a ruling that would endorse the Amnesty law in European justice, but sharing that goal does not bring the positions of the two political groups closer. From JxCat they emphasized this Friday that nothing changes in the political sphere, although within the socialist ranks they hoped that a favorable ruling and a possible return of the party leader, Carles Puigdemont, could help build bridges and grease again a relationship that has not flowed since last autumn. “This changes nothing,” said today the secretary general of JxCat, Jordi Turull, who made it clear that he has not spoken with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and that they do not plan to do so.