Política

Junts inflicted a double defeat of enormous political significance on the Government in Congress this Tuesday by joining its votes with those of PP and Vox to overturn, with only a few minutes’ separation, two of the most sensitive initiatives of the legislature. These were the housing decree promoted by Sumar and the investment consortium agreed between ERC and the PSC to strengthen the Generalitat’s participation in state investments in Catalonia. The setback hits the coalition hard on the eve of the Andalusian campaign, with polls already very adverse for the left against Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla’s PP, which aims to revalidate its absolute majority.

When the National Court judge Manuel García Castellón concluded the investigation into Operation Kitchen, he put in black and white that “dysfunctions and irregularities in the management and control” of the reserved funds were evident, which had led to the financing of the “intrinsically illegal police operation” [to steal documentation from the former treasurer of the Popular Party Luis Bárcenas that could affect the party].

Far-right MEP Luis ‘Alvise’ Pérez loses parliamentary immunity. The European Parliament voted this Tuesday in favor of lifting the protection of the leader of Se acabó La Fiesta (SALF), as requested by the Supreme Court to be able to prosecute him for alleged harassment on social media via Telegram of Valencia’s delegated prosecutor for hate crimes and discrimination, Susana Gisbert.

Jordi Pujol Ferrusola was the “driver” of the letters that his mother, Marta Ferrusola, sent to Andorra. The “missals,” in the terminology she invented to talk about money. This is what his son explained during the two days of questioning he underwent in the trial being conducted by the Audiencia Nacional against the Pujol family for alleged money laundering and illicit association.

The investment consortium agreed between Esquerra Republicana and the PSC will not pass the parliamentary examination. In the first procedure, the consideration, the JxCat group, key with its seven votes, will vote against, so the initiative will die in the Congress of Deputies this Tuesday.

The PNV spokesperson in Congress, Maribel Vaquero, announced this Tuesday that her group will abstain this afternoon in the plenary vote on the decree-law extending rental contracts.

Jordi Pujol i Soley will be judged by history or time, but not by the courts. As of 10:55 AM yesterday, he is a man legally free for all purposes, as the case against him, which is being heard in the Audiencia Nacional against his entire family and nine businessmen for alleged corruption, has been archived or dismissed due to health reasons. The court summoned him yesterday for a medical and personal examination before deciding whether to keep him in the case and subject him to interrogation or, given his deteriorated state of health, to exonerate him. The president of the court, José Ricardo de Prada, issued a medical and judicial diagnosis, all in one: Pujol cannot be judged.

The head of Barcelona’s investigating court number 24, María Antonia Coscollola, has closed the case opened against three Mossos d’Esquadra officers accused of having helped the former president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, during his fleeting visit to Barcelona on August 8, 2024, coinciding with Salvador Illa’s investiture session in the Parliament as president of the Generalitat.

Given the long queues of migrants that have been occurring these days in Barcelona’s municipal offices to obtain the necessary documentation to apply for regularization, the City Council of the Catalan capital has decided to reinforce assistance to these individuals in particular to facilitate their obtaining of the registration certificate.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has burst into many professions and is changing the way people work. Aware that this tool can modify the activity of the courts, the Plenary Session of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) approved an instruction on its use in January, in which it warned judges that AI cannot dictate sentences, assess facts or evidence, or apply the law without the supervision and “constant human, real, conscious and effective control” of the magistrates.