Política

The ruling of the EU Court of Justice on the amnesty for the leaders of the procés is the culmination of the growing confrontation between Pedro Sánchez’s Government and the judiciary. The Executive barely hides it anymore and accuses some judges of acting in a twisted manner, driven by political motives. On the other side, magistrates holding positions in high courts and conservative judges’ associations consider themselves attacked in their independence. They even see themselves as the last defenders of the State against a Government they consider populist and capable of fostering the breakup of the State and the degradation of institutions in order to stay in power.

The leader of Junts Carles Puigdemont awaits the ruling to be announced this Thursday from the European justice system regarding the amnesty to reactivate his return to Spain in the courts. However, whatever the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) says, the expectation is that the return of the former president of the Generalitat will still have to wait a few months. According to legal sources, the national arrest warrant against him will not be revoked until the Constitutional Court (TC) rules, presumably in October, on the appeal he filed against the decision of the Supreme Court (TS) judge Pablo Llarena not to apply the amnesty to him.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will issue a ruling this Thursday on the Amnesty law in response to the preliminary questions raised about criminal forgetfulness by both the Court of Auditors and the National Court, regarding the possibility of amnestying the crimes of embezzlement and terrorism. The CJEU must determine whether the rule approved by Congress in 2024 is compatible with the EU legal framework.

The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has rejected the attempt by former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to stop a new line of investigation opened for another alleged influence peddling in favor of a Peruvian company, Grupo Gloria.

The wife of the Prime Minister Begoña Gómez has had to hand over to the investigating judge, Juan Carlos Peinado, the plane tickets to prove that she indeed flew to the United Kingdom to attend her daughter’s graduation and that she did not go anywhere else. Specifically, she has provided the tickets for the flight to London and the return from Bristol.

The national deputy secretary of Sectoral Coordination of the PP, Alma Ezcurra, has announced that the party will submit a proposal to reform the Organic Law on Foreigners with the aim of providing legal coverage for immediate returns, known as ‘hot returns,’ of those who try to access Ceuta and Melilla irregularly and by swimming.

Contrary to expectations, the 24-year prison sentence for José Luis Ábalos for corruption offenses when he was Minister of Transport not only harms the PSOE, but seems to boost it, according to the July barometer of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS), published this Wednesday, in which the socialists gain almost two points in estimated vote (33%) compared to June and recover an eight-point lead over the PP (25.1%), which loses two points in a month. Vox continues to lose momentum and would now obtain 15.3%, half a point less than in the last survey, and Sumar (6.1%) also loses three tenths.

“Today the last wall of continental Europe falls,” celebrated Pedro Sánchez this Wednesday, after attending in La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz) the symbolic act of dismantling the Gibraltar fence ten years after Brexit, with the entry into force of the agreement sealed the day before between the European Union and the United Kingdom.

The president of the PSOE Cristina Narbona has acknowledged that the indications collected in the UCO reports about the activity of Leire Díez and Santos Cerdán to destroy judicial cases affecting the party are “worrying”.

One of Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s great convictions if he comes to Government is to strengthen Spain’s role as a bridge between Europe and Latin America. And this Wednesday he has claimed that link at a summit of the European People’s Party (EPP) held in Madrid with 60 political formations from 42 European and Latin American countries with the aim of addressing the challenges of democracy. At this meeting, the leader of the PP wanted to make an assessment of the political situation in Spain and criticized Pedro Sánchez, whom he described as “authoritarian.” “I welcome you to a Spain that also suffers the threat of a weakened democracy, attacked from the highest instances that should defend it above all else,” he stated.