Corruption is not fought by pardoning those who practice it. A true fact that gives reason to those who have been upset by the government grace measure approved in favor of the former socialist mayor of Linares Juan Fernández; the cultural manager Natalio Grueso, and the…
The assessment of the management that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, made this week has served to close the curtain on a tense political season awaiting an early election that has not taken place. At this end of the season, La Vanguardia grades the political parties, just as we did last year.
The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has agreed to summon as a suspect on September 10 the former director of the Civil Guard Leonardo Marcos in the case being investigated against an alleged plot aimed at destabilizing the judicial proceedings affecting the PSOE and the Government.
The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has authorized the UDEF, through the money laundering service SEPBLAC, to analyze several dozen accounts of the former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, his daughters, Laura and Alba Rodríguez Espinosa, his secretary, Gertrudis Alcázar, his friend Julio Martínez Martínez, and several companies under investigation amid suspicions that all of them might have concealed funds or moved money of illicit origin.
In his end-of-political-course assessment, Pedro Sánchez celebrated last Tuesday the recent endorsement by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) of the Amnesty law: “It has confirmed that we acted in accordance with the law to promote reconciliation.” “It was a brave but necessary decision that allows us to look to the future together again,” he emphasized. He even stressed that “a success of the Amnesty law is that the PP and Junts are reunited, nothing more and nothing less.” However, the President of the Government said nothing in his appearance about the fact that the Council of Ministers had just approved, in its last meeting before the August break, granting a partial pardon to Laura Borràs, which will prevent the former president of the Parliament of Catalonia from going to prison, as later revealed by the Ministry of Justice.
Begoña Gómez, wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has informed Judge Juan Carlos Peinado that she is changing her lawyer for the jury trial she will have to face and for which she is being asked for 13 years in prison, according to legal sources.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, reviews a difficult political term marked by various judicial cases affecting the PSOE or its family environment and by the lack of agreements that have prevented the approval of the planned housing decree and have moved away the possibility of new budgets.
The Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, and the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, have become embroiled in a bitter controversy, including an exchange of insults, following the request made by the popular leader for the State to declare a national emergency to combat the fires and take command.
The simultaneous advance of wildfires in central Spain has unleashed a new political confrontation between the Community of Madrid and the central government. While the regional president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has requested the declaration of operational situation 3 of national interest, the Government Delegation questions the measure and demands documentation to support it.
Pedro Sánchez’s Government has emerged from the last extraordinary plenary session of the political year with a bittersweet taste: it has saved three initiatives with the force of law, but has suffered a new defeat on the deficit path, which has been the most significant political vote of the day because it is the preliminary step to be able to present the State’s general budgets. This is the second time in two weeks that the Government has seen Congress reject, with votes from PP, Vox, and Junts, the stability path, a sign that it will have difficulty processing the accounts.
