The Superior Court of Xustiza of Galicia (TSXG) has issued an unprecedented ruling in the country, recognizing the right of a domestic worker to receive contributory unemployment benefits, despite having requested them at a time when the law did not allow it..

The verdict of October 10, which was published this Monday by the TSXG, establishes that the plaintiff is entitled to unemployment benefit, even if the application was made before the entry into force of Royal Decree Law 16/2022, which improves the working and Social Security conditions of people employed in domestic service.

Application of the gender perspective

The superior court has validated this woman's right to receive unemployment, even though the law in force at the time of the request did not allow it, applying the gender perspective and the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). ) that caused the regulatory change in Spain.

The judges explain in the ruling that the Spanish law that excluded domestic employees from accessing unemployment benefits – in force at the time of the events – was “contrary to community regulations”.

Background of the case

In the ruling, it is recalled that the woman, who was affiliated with the Special System for Domestic Employees until August 4, 2022, had contributed 2,361 days to this regime and 2 days to the General Social Security Regime..

However, when she applied for her unemployment benefit, she was denied because it was not provided for domestic workers, since Royal Decree Law 16/2022 came into force on September 9, 2022.. The Social Chamber has highlighted that the group to which the plaintiff belongs is “strongly feminized, since women represent 95.53% of the total”.

The new regime and the gender perspective

The TSXG has indicated that the new regime, approved in Royal Decree Law 16/2022, resolves this discrimination for benefits produced after its entry into force, “leaving the eventual benefits caused by previously”.

Furthermore, it has stressed that the gender perspective in the interpretation of the regulations and the obligation derived from the jurisprudence of the CJEU “oblige the protection of workers integrated into this special system when the loss of their job has occurred prior to the new one.” regime and are unprotected”.

This means that, according to the ruling, the TSXG judges recognize the right of the affected person to unemployment benefit, “despite the fact that she has not contributed for it – due to the legal, discriminatory impossibility-“.

Interpretation of the regulations

The ruling adds that “it is necessary to take into account, on the one hand, that the Spanish regulations that excluded contributions (and unemployment) for workers integrated into the Special System for Domestic Employees are contrary to community law because they are discriminatory, and “That this situation has not been resolved with the reform carried out by Royal Decree Law 16/22 because it does not resolve the problem of the possible previous beneficiaries, but only of the causative events after its entry into force.”.

The TSXG has also indicated that “the interpretation of the regulations must be produced in the most favorable way to the discriminated group (that of the people integrated into that special system), with a gender perspective, because the feminine bias of its members is indisputable. almost entirely; and, furthermore, in the application and interpretation of the rules, judges have an obligation to do so with a gender perspective, by integrating a higher value of the legal system.”.

The ruling, a pioneer in Spain, is not final, since an appeal can be filed against it.

The National Police arrested Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias, better known as Little Nicolás, last Friday in Madrid for having a false driving license, for which he is charged with the crime of document falsification.

As reported by the newspaper El Mundo and sources from the investigation have confirmed to EFE, the arrest was carried out jointly between the Madrid and Granada headquarters..

Little Nicolás was arrested as the author of a crime of falsification of documents for possessing a false driving license, but not against road safety, since there is no knowledge that he used it..

The investigation has been carried out within the framework of Operation Jordan, which in March 2022 managed to dismantle a criminal organization that had “hacked” computer systems of public institutions in Madrid and Granada.

Little Nicolás was already sentenced by the Provincial Court of Madrid to one year and nine months in prison for a crime of falsifying documents for falsifying a DNI so that a friend could take the Selectivity exam on his behalf in 2012..

• What is celebrated on November 1 in Spain and why it is called All Saints' Day
• Spain's work calendar 2024: these will be the holidays and long weekends

After the National Holiday of Spain, celebrated on October 12, and with the winter schedule about to begin this weekend, there are many who are waiting for the next national holiday to arrive.. And the truth is that it is just around the corner, since All Saints' Day is celebrated next November 1.

Last year it fell on a Tuesday, so some were able to take the opportunity to take a four-day long weekend and take a break before the “aqueduct” of the Constitution and the Immaculate Conception.. However, this 2023, November 1st is a Wednesday, so only a few lucky people who have vacation days will be able to take a long weekend, the rest will enjoy a holiday in the middle of the week, which never hurts..

Where is a holiday in Spain on November 1? Well, as can be seen in the 2023 work calendar, this day appears as one of the eight non-replaceable national holidays.. Which means that no Autonomous Community has the right to replace or change it and it is a paid and non-recoverable festive day.. Therefore, all of Spain will celebrate All Saints' Day.

The Day of the Faithful Dead

November 1 is a Christian holiday, since Spain is a country with a Catholic tradition and honors both known and unknown saints.. The proclamation of the feast of All Saints comes from Pope Gregory IV, who in the year 835 gave instructions for it in the time of Louis, the Pious.. Although there is no firm story about the origin of the November 1 holiday, it is believed that Pope Gregory IV chose this day because it coincided with one of the festivals of the Germanic peoples and during these years, the objective of the Church was eliminate all pagan celebrations.

In reality, it is celebrated that the deceased have overcome purgatory, have been sanctified and enjoy eternal life in the presence of God.. The most widespread tradition in Spain is to visit cemeteries as a family to bring flowers to the deceased and, in the process, clean the tombstones.. In some autonomous communities they have their own traditions. For example, in some areas of Galicia 'Samhain' is celebrated, in the Basque Country the 'Gaztañerre Eguna' and in Catalonia the 'Castanyada'. The typical thing, in all of them, is to roast chestnuts on the fire.

Although there is some confusion, it is important to keep in mind that All Saints' Day is not the same as All Souls' Day, also known as All Souls' Day.. This is celebrated on November 2 and its objective is to pray for the faithful who no longer continue in earthly life.. During this day, the so-called requiem masses are celebrated, that is, a prayer for the soul of the dead, unless November 2 falls on a Sunday, in which case these types of ceremonies cannot be celebrated..

• The Aemet warns of rain and strong wind between Sunday and Halloween: these are the communities affected
• Rain, wind and waves will put the northwest at significant risk tomorrow and it will rain in a large part of the peninsula

The effects of Storm Celine are being felt in Spain, with strong winds and rain over the weekend in much of the country. After its effects in the northwest of the country, the rain spreads to other parts of the Spanish territory, and during the next week we will continue to experience precipitation in many areas.

In fact, the Aemet (State Meteorological Agency) foresees yellow alerts for rain this Monday in the provinces of Huelva, Seville, Huesca, Toledo, Badajoz and Cáceres, and yellow alerts for waves in Asturias, Cantabria, Lugo and Pontevedra, while The orange alert will be activated in A Coruña.

Weather forecast for the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands from 10-29-2023 to 11-04-2023. Always updated info at https://t.co/keCWfwvBJI pic.twitter.com/2IS9KnLGO7

— AEMET (@AEMET_Esp) October 29, 2023

In addition, temperatures will drop across most of the country, except in the Mediterranean.. This instability will later affect Halloween, especially in the northwest of the peninsula, and during the same night of October 31 it could rain in Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria and the northwest of Castilla y León..

New storm on Thursday?

The Celine storm could practically immediately give way to a new storm that would bring more rain and wind starting Thursday, according to the Aemet warning.. This next meteorological phenomenon would affect a large part of our country.

The #BorrascaCeline leaves rain, wind and sea storms on the Peninsula this Sunday, except on the Mediterranean side.
👉Another deep storm could reach the European Atlantic coast on Thursday, with very strong winds and rain in large areas of our country. pic.twitter.com/mmLoXfz5qq

— AEMET (@AEMET_Esp) October 29, 2023

Although at least for now it does not have a name, the Aemet describes it as “another deep storm” and assures that “it could reach the European Atlantic coast on Thursday”, leaving “very strong winds and rain” in many parts of Spain..

According to the current Aemet forecasts, the arrival of this storm will cause a very rainy day on Thursday in our country, with precipitation and very cloudy skies in practically all of Spain except in the Mediterranean area, and from Friday the rain would be more concentrated in the north of the peninsula.

A few minutes after 0:00 on October 12, a spectacular chase through the streets of Hospitalet de Llobregat ended with the crossing of two Urban Guard patrols from this town and the arrest of the driver of the vehicle.. A few minutes before, a patrol wanted to stop the vehicle to identify its driver for the suspicious driving he was doing, but the vehicle fled.. After colliding with two motorcycles, fortunately without causing fatalities, two police cars were finally able to block his path on Jacint Verdaguer Street, in the Santa Eulàlia neighborhood..

The municipal report records the incident, highlighting that the car collided with two motorcycles and that the driver tested positive for blood alcohol, so proceedings were opened for a crime against road safety.. What caught the most attention, however, was that the driver got out of the vehicle and, with a cocky attitude, displayed a police badge, identifying himself as a sub-inspector of the Mossos.. This did not free him from the proceedings, but it shocked the local police..

The perpetrator of the incident had been, in fact, a sub-inspector of the Catalan Regional Police and, in addition, in command of the feared Internal Affairs Division (DAI).. It was Jaume Monterde, a well-known agent in the force due to his position in that group, a specialist in persecuting his colleagues..

A former colleague of his tells El Confidencial that Monterde “made a big mess with some atrocities he did in 2017.”. At that time, he had already left the DAI and had been transferred to a position consistent with his rank in Hospitalet, as head of the Citizen Security Unit.”. Jaume's performance in Hospitalet did not leave anyone indifferent. Considered a man in the circle of the then head of the Mossos, Josep Lluís Trapero, the sub-inspector never hid his sympathies for Convergència or his affiliations with the independence movement..

According to those who know him, he used to spit on the Spanish flag pole when he arrived at the police station.. It is also said that he forced his subordinates to speak to him in Catalan under the cover that he did not understand Spanish.. But his stellar performance occurred during the celebration of the illegal referendum in October 2017: after the consultation, a group of agents denounced him and the chief investigative sub-inspector for allowing the referendum to be held and referring in an insulting manner to Spain and its government.

A confiscated urn… for himself

Both police commanders, according to the complaint that reached the Prosecutor's Office, shared “a fanatical ideological affiliation incompatible with the performance of a public job and even less with the characteristics of armed police units in judicial police work.”. On that day, an agent who was asked to support the State Security Forces and Corps and remove ballot boxes from the schools, as the judges had ordered, was sent to serve in the dungeons.. They also highlighted in their complaint that on October 1, the sub-inspector “appropriated one of the seized urns, taking it to his home with the comment that 'this will be worth money in the future' and inviting another sergeant to take another one, to which “He agreed verbally”.

On that day, when they asked him for help to support the members of the National Police Corps who had appeared at the Vilumara institute, where a polling station was established, he described the agents of the other police force as “sons of the big whore.”. One of the police officers from the police station present on that occasion tells El Confidencial that “a colleague who was present and whose father is a national police officer wanted to go after him.”. 'I'm going to rip off your head,' he said as he jumped on top of him.. “We had to hold him together because he wanted to crush him.”.

In the briefings that the police stations hold early in the morning to discuss and distribute services, Monterde often appeared with protest t-shirts, “even anti-system or with pro-independence proclamations, without caring what the police station staff might think.”. His second in Citizen Security, Sergeant Josep Lluís Vidal, with whom he had coincided in the DAI, appeared in the 1-O videos collaborating with the electoral colleges instead of requisitioning ballot boxes, as the judges had ordered.. The police leadership of the police station was 100% pro-independence, from the hard wing. On the day of the referendum, for example, the vast majority of the riot police had been given a holiday or days on personal business, meaning there were not enough forces to support the other police forces in the event of a riot..

After the events of 1-O, several files were opened against him and the police leadership began to fall into disgrace. Given that and the possibility that the National Police would open an investigation with the 1-O communications through the stations, in which he described the national police as “sons of bitches” and where it was prohibited to remove ballot boxes, he took the leave. medical and left the body, so he lost his status as a mosso. “He retained, however, the position of civil servant, although no longer as an agent. Some time later, he asked to be reinstated in the force, but not as a police officer.. After that request, they put him back into the DAI, this time as technical-administrative staff,” say sources who know him..

The silence of the controls

The event that occurred on October 12 revealed something else: apparently, the police badge he was wearing had been lost.. “The members of the DAI know very well what happens when someone loses their license plate or it is stolen.. “We are used to sanctions for losing a license plate, because those from the DAI have no regard,” says another police officer to this newspaper.. Furthermore, they point out that those who had it worst were the constitutionalist police forces.. “The DAI was going to crush whoever was interested,” says another source.. There are those who went to testify during the process only because of their constitutionalist positions. In some areas of the force, hyper-independence attitudes were the order of the day, the pressures were suffocating and they did not forgive those who were in favor of the Constitution and legality.”.

The fact that the badge miraculously appeared in the hand of the former sub-inspector after the escape from the local police could put him in a bind.. “The Municipal Police does not have to know if the license plate was lost or not.”. When the agents saw that it was a mosso, they consulted the regional police force about the situation, but they were not given information.. “We don't know if it's because he has protection from high places or because he is shielded due to his independence status.”.

Official sources from the Ministry of the Interior consulted by El Confidencial declined to give their version of the events and even say if they had opened any file for the incident or if they had taken any action in this regard.. According to some of his colleagues, the story of that night reveals a long string of crimes that would stain the service record of any agent for life, including impersonating a sub-inspector, omission of the duty to provide aid, reckless driving, fleeing from agents police… and the issue of the license plate. “What we have certified is that he wore the badge and flaunted it as if he were a sub-inspector when in reality he is no longer one,” say municipal sources close to the case.. Because if the plate had been given up as lost, what was it doing in his hand that night? The Ministry of the Interior, therefore, maintains a stony silence. The once powerful command has today become a Chinese woman in the shoe of Minister Joan Ignasi Elena. And still no one has given explanations.

Ramón Rodríguez Arribas, vice president emeritus of the Constitutional Court, a body in which he served between 2004 and 2013, died early this Sunday at the age of 89.

This was announced in a publication by X, formerly Twitter, by the Professional Association of the Judiciary (APM), of which Rodríguez was one of the founders.

In said publication, the APM has lamented his death and has valued the “extraordinary jurist” that Rodríguez was.

Likewise, they have highlighted the “unbreakable commitment” that the man who was also a judge of the Supreme Court had with the Constitution and with Spain.

The Third Section of the Provincial Court of Almería has sentenced three defendants to sentences of between three and four years in prison for the kidnapping of a man whom they blamed for the disappearance of 29,000 euros, money linked to a drug trafficking operation..

The sentence, consulted by EFE, indicates that the accused MAFT. intervened in a drug sale operation in which an acquaintance of the kidnapped had participated and in which said amount was lost. MAFT. He contacted the victim to meet him on the esplanade located next to the Mediterranean Games stadium in the capital of Almería, and around 8:45 p.m. on September 23, the accused arrived at this place in a vehicle accompanied by the others. two prosecuted. Once there, a “tense” conversation began in the middle of which another of the accused grabbed the victim between the shoulder and neck to force him into the car.. The victim did not resist their pressure and got into the car out of fear..

There they told him in an “intimidating” manner that, until the money stolen from MAFT appeared, they would not release him, but the next morning they decided to release him on the advice of the accused's father-in-law.. They then began the trip back to Almería, although they were intercepted around 2:15 p.m. near the municipality of Viator by the National Police.. Along with them was another man who was tried with the three convicted defendants, and who has been acquitted..

The magistrates highlighted the behavior of one of the three accused with respect to the kidnapped person, “in part to avoid greater suffering that must be taken into consideration when imposing the sentence, which should not exceed the minimum of three years in prison.” . However, regarding MAFT and the third defendant, “the same reflection cannot be reached, since they are the true executing arms of the kidnapping, directly using the most serious acts of intimidation, such as when MAFT tells the other to take a gun.” , or like when the latter tells the victim that he is the only kidnapped person who hasn't had something cut off.”

For this reason, the latter two have been sentenced to individual sentences of four years in prison for the crime of kidnapping, while the third defendant is sentenced to three years for this crime.

A celebration of diversity, dignity, equality and freedom. This is the objective of the BaezaDiversa 2023 Awards, which celebrated its 14th edition this Saturday night at the Montemar Theater in the Andalusian city, where a multitude of authorities, entities and groups traveled to support the winners..

Pedro Cabrera, mayor of Baeza, opened the event with some welcoming words, in which he highlighted that the city “aspires in this new edition of the Baeza for Diversity Program to once again be an instrument for sharing spaces, transforming stereotypes and roles and “educate in equality, promoting respect for differences, joining efforts and establishing commitments for coexistence and mutual respect.”. “Therefore, with this new edition we wanted to reinforce in a special way our commitment to equality, respect and dignity of all people; ours, and that of a citizenry increasingly committed to social causes, to problems derived from a model that on too many occasions still excludes, or discriminates against, people from the LGTBI community or other diversities,” he added..

The BaezaDiversa Awards are part of the Baeza for Diversity Program, created in 2009 to “promote citizen awareness regarding the acceptance of sexual diversity, gender identity and other diversities”. To this end, the city council develops an extensive program of activities each year between September and October, which culminates in the granting of these awards..

At the event, Mari Ángeles Moreno, city councilor for Equality, also highlighted the “commitment to vindicate, commemorate and protect the achievement of the rights that protect people from the LGTBI community and other diversities, as well as our firm intention to continue working for respect, equality and freedom”.

The winners

In the “education and science” category, Alfredo Corell Almuzara, professor at the University of Seville, scientific communicator and prestigious member of the Spanish Society of Immunology, received the award “based on his recognized educational, research, scientific and informative work, as well as their defense and activism in favor of the rights of the LGTBIQ+ group”, highlighted the Baeza city council.

In the “diversities” category, the recognition went to the ONCE Foundation, “based on its recognized action of solidarity and cooperation in working with diverse groups, also integrating other dimensions such as equality and non-discrimination of LGTBI people”.

Manuela Saborido Muñoz, better known as Manolita Chen, was awarded in the “Pedro Zerolo” category, “based on the development of her personal, social and artistic profile as a leading activist of the LGTBIQ+ group and promoter of actions aimed at other disadvantaged groups”. This artist and businesswoman was one of the first transsexual women in Spain to change her name and sex on her ID in the 80s..

Lluis Guilera Ximenis won the award in the “media” category, “based on his recognized professional and personal career in the field of journalism, communication and TV, and his position against LGTBIphobia and in favor of the visibility of sexual diversity”.

Jaime de los Santos González, deputy and National Secretary of Culture of the Popular Party, received the recognition in the “public participation” modality, “based on his activism and personal, cultural and political work against LGTBIphobia, as well as for his presence and social influence in favor of LGTBIQ+ groups”.

And finally, the “honorary recognition” went to Joaquín Álvarez de la Roza, “based on his constant support for the Baeza Diversity Program since its creation”. Born in Asturias and a retired professor from the IES Duque de Rivas, in Rivas Vaciamadrid, De la Roza promoted during his years of teaching the so-called Tutoring of Attention to Affective-Sexual Diversity, a pioneering initiative in Spain to help LGTBIQ+ students to be able to live fully their sexual orientation and gender identity within the school community, carrying out prevention and awareness actions against bullying. He has also been an “indispensable collaborator” of the Baeza Program for Diversity.

Génova has tiptoed over the reasons why 23-J ruined Alberto Núñez Feijóo's options to become president of the Government. If there are thoughtful internal analyses, they have not transcended. The most widespread explanation is that the pacts with Vox in the autonomies were poorly managed and that the PSOE built its campaign on these alliances.. There were agreements in the Valencian Community, Extremadura, Aragon, the Balearic Islands and Murcia, which were added to the one that already existed in Castilla y León. The extreme right is part of all governments, except for the Islands. They must live together for four years. Although there are already predictions about the disappearance of Vox, the renowned economist Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, who collaborates in this newspaper, defended in a recent conference at the Rafael del Pino Foundation, that Santiago Abascal's formation will survive like other sister parties in the rest of Europe. It is not Citizens.

The relationship that the PP intends to establish with them is different in each community. And, as happened after the regional and municipal elections, the leadership gives its barons freedom. The reason, they explain, is that Feijóo would never have achieved his absolute majorities in Galicia, if the voter had perceived that he was acting under the dictates of Genoa.. They will let them plan their own strategy, but they will demand results in the next elections. This is how the barons intend to gobble up Vox in the coming years.

Valencian Community

In the territory where Vox has gained the most institutional advantage after 28M – a first vice presidency of Culture and Sports and the Ministries of Justice and the Interior and of Agriculture – concern about the competition of its partners is almost non-existent. “They have no idea about the Administration,” explain PP sources, “they are politically very lazy” and “they lack an organic structure”. Furthermore, “they don't even know who he has named because many people have been imposed on them from Madrid”. And that makes them feel “insecure” and lean on the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón.. For these reasons they do not see a need for planning to erode them: “You don't have to want to eat them, they are going to disappear on their own.”. All political discourse, they point out, is carried out by the president, who is an “emerging leadership”. And that shrinks Vox's space. It has monopolized most of the measures—elimination of the inheritance and donation tax, tax reduction and reduction of positions in the Administration—and, for the moment, it has not had a single brush with Vox. Mazón's aspiration is to consolidate an ideological renewal, which reconnects the PP with Valencian society in a broad way and provides it with an absolute majority.. “And as long as Pedro Sánchez remains in the Government, we will do well”. Vox, they believe, will simply evaporate.

Estremadura

At the antipodes of the Valencian PP. Neither the extreme right has had such a strong impact there (8.12% of the vote) nor is María Guardiola's profile so presidentialist.. Contrary to agreeing with Vox, Génova forced it due to the risk that the government of its community, traditionally socialist, would escape. His “word” was very touched. He gave them Forest Management and Rural World and the counselor, an independent, resigned after 77 days, due to “disagreements” with the national management, which tries to control the management from Madrid. Sources from the Extremaduran PP point to Vox's lack of territorial implementation and the absence of previous experience as its great weaknesses. “They are people who have never worked as a team and it is taking its toll on them.” Over time, they maintain, they will become absorbed. They achieved 50,000 votes (5 seats) and with 12,000 less “you are left out of the Assembly.” The popular ones do not pay close attention to their partners, but rather focus on conveying that there is a “powerful” Executive, with a project for Extremadura. The announcements are capitalized by the Government spokesperson because, they confess, now “there is no interest” in excessive media exposure of Guardiola, after all the controversy with which he began his leadership.

Aragon

Jorge Azcón is another president that his party sees as having a “national” projection. And there are two. Let Juanma Moreno and Isabel Díaz Ayuso prepare. There, cohabitation with Vox in the Government is “good.” They manage the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Agriculture. They give them space, they let them make their own announcements. They have no complaints. Popular sources do consider that Vox's work may be “diluted” by Azcón's “high profile.” “By simple decantation.” A PP baron with a “tour” in front of a regional leader of Abascal's party. But, be careful, they warn, “in Aragon we are not interested in eating Vox” because no one has ever had an absolute majority. Fragmentation—there are eight parties in Parliament—is an Aragonese trademark, “it is linked to the community.” Therefore, they emphasize, “we will need them to continue in the Government.”

Balearics

The Islands were the place where collusion with Vox seemed most bearable because they are not part of Marga Prohens' Government. But this is exactly where the situation has become most tense.. Vox puts the next budgets at risk by refusing to support the spending ceiling. The reason is that they demand to now implement the free choice of language with the splitting of lines. The popular ones do not refuse, it is part of the programmatic pact, but, they emphasize, with the speed they demand, “it cannot be executed.” The conversations continue. Even Abascal's mediation was sought, but he has not been able, for now, to prevail. Vox was founded on groups opposed to the majority use of Catalan and they have imposed their approach on the parliamentary group. Of the five deputies, one left this week due to disagreements with the rest.

In the PP they know that “unlike Ciudadanos, Vox is not an anecdote.” They have “a certain structure.” But they believe that their future depends on the national brand. The popular parties have the capacity to grow with the lost votes of Cs and the PI, who were left out of the Parliament. Also from Vox. “They are PP voters who can return if Abascal does not pull” or because they do not understand that they “hinder” the governability of Prohens. The priority is to resolve this crisis. “The relationship until now was cordial and they did not seek confrontation”. They were going to capitalize on some issues with bills in the House. But with the tongue they are in “maximum positions”. Prohens, they say, has made “keeping his word” his political motto, and “he is not going to make impossible promises.”.

Murcia

During the campaign, Fernando López Miras dreamed of a government alone, but he was missing two seats. Despite this eventuality, he continued dreaming. The prospect of repeating the elections due to the castling of Vox, which refused to support him if he did not make room for them in his Executive, postponed the pact with the extreme right until the first days of September. They took over a vice presidency and the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Development. The president did not hide that his transfer was influenced by the need for the far-right party to support Feijóo's (failed) investiture. The trauma has not been healed. The PP has been very reluctant to talk about its links with Vox. Everything's fine”. “We have been in government for a month and things are working normally.” The reality is that those from Abascal have an important source of votes in Murcia. From 9.46% support in the regional elections in 2019 to 17.7% in 2023. The 23J was even higher: 21.8%, when the national average was 12.3%. They have lost votes compared to the previous generals, but much less than in other autonomies. And the Murcian PP does not seem to be clear about how to confront its strength.

Castile and León

The Board chaired by Alfonso Fernández Mañueco is patient zero. The first coalition government. A vice presidency and three councils. And proof that having responsibilities hurts Vox. “They don't know how to manage, they don't have experience, they don't know the Administration,” say Executive sources. The x-ray that is now repeated in other communities. Furthermore, they reveal, they have “very controlled” from Madrid. They do not give room for territorial organizations to develop and that is “not knowing” Spain. They have also “asked them not to make trouble with me,” in reference to the outbursts of Vice President Juan García-Gallardo. On June 23 they went from five deputies in Castilla y León to one. There they see them in the doldrums. According to demographic sources, its essence is “polarization” and when there is a “strong” leader on the right, as was seen with Feijóo in the investiture, they lose their reason for being.

Despite the good results achieved with the pardons in terms of reducing the social conflict in Catalonia, the PSC bases show concern about Pedro Sánchez's willingness to agree on a future amnesty law in exchange for the investiture.. This is explained by internal socialist sources. However, these critical voices have not transcended beyond the debates within this political formation, since in these environments and in the middle ranks, priority is given to guaranteeing the government in Spain over the consequences that this new norm may produce. in Catalonia.

The critical voices of socialist personalities are not limited to Felipe González. In many PSC groups serious reservations are being raised about the way the amnesty is presented. Grassroots militants such as Joan Ferran and Joaquim Coll have also expressed their doubts in various media outlets about a proposal that is also presented as a bargaining chip for Sánchez's investiture.. The debate is not about whether the measure is constitutional, but about whether the independence movement deserves it, given that, formally, the same radicalism as months ago is maintained..

Officially, the party has avoided defending the measure, but that changed this Saturday in the Federal Committee. Just a month ago, on September 28, he voted against the amnesty plan proposed by ERC in the Parliament. But he doesn't criticize her either.. That is why he chose not to go to the demonstration called by the Catalan Civil Society against the amnesty law.. Salvador Illa has dictated maximum caution and the party has strictly complied. This Saturday there was a turning point and the Catalan socialists, like Sánchez, have turned and are openly in favor of amnesty as a formula for “coexistence”.

“It is an exceptional measure to recover full political normality in Catalonia and Spain,” PSC sources explained after the Federal Committee held in Ferraz, where Sánchez left with the endorsement of the party to attempt his investiture.. And the “only way” to achieve this successfully is through amnesty. The acting president advocated “making necessity a virtue” and the leaders present closed ranks with him, with the exception of Emiliano García Page, reports Carlos Rocha.

The PSC, en bloc

The PSC leadership is responding as a block. Both in the Executive Commission, the National Council or the parliamentary group in the Parliament. Not a critical voice in any of these bodies, not even behind closed doors.. The party closes ranks with its general secretary, Salvador Illa, closely linked to Pedro Sánchez. In the groups in which doubts have been raised, according to internal party sources, they have been above all due to the positions of the independence movement: not asking for forgiveness, insisting that in certain circumstances a unilateral process could be reproduced, wanting Catalonia to be recognized as a national minority and wanting to turn the amnesty into a victory for the separatist movement.

In most cases they are not open criticisms, but rather reasonable doubts. It is not about opposing the amnesty itself, but rather the general context that the independence movement is drawing for this general measure of grace.. Neither ERC nor JxCAT are committed to creating a climate of harmony neither in Catalonia nor the rest of Spain. The debate in the Senate on the amnesty, held last week, shows how the measure is being proposed in a climate of tension and not of reunion between Catalans and healing wounds in Catalonia.

The PSC leadership has responded to the criticism with two lines of argument. Most of the time because the voices that have questioned the amnesty were the same ones that opposed the pardons. The answer is always that the grace measure sowed the same uncertainties in the previous phase, but then they were positive for coexistence in Catalonia, beyond what the independence propaganda said at first.. Let us remember, the PSC promised social peace to the Catalans, but did not set a cost.

Socialist priorities

The majority of these socialist bases are aware that a good part of the specific weight that the party now enjoys lies in the fact that it occupies power in the central government.. Nobody wants to give up that, aware that situations such as those of the former mayor of Barcelona Jordi Hereu as president of Hispasat are only the result of these circumstances.. Therefore, priority ends up being given to governing in Madrid over the reasonable doubts raised by the amnesty.. Also that the personal future of a good part of the party's cadres in Barcelona City Council depends on this pact and that, depending on how the investiture agreements are developed, it will end up being agreed with the Commons or with JxCAT.

On the part of the leadership of Catalan socialism, these days priority is being given to internal didactics. First, we recognize the legitimacy of showing reservations about the initiative, then we remember the good results obtained by the pardons—many of the current critics of the amnesty already expressed similar doubts internally with the pardons—and how well it is going. the party in the polls and, finally, a vote of confidence is requested from the Moncloa team, which is the one that is assuming the negotiation.

Lack of weather

The independence movement has focused in recent weeks on demanding amnesty as a way to rearm itself before the State.. For ERC, the measure represents a natural continuity of the pardons. For JxCAT, on the other hand, it is a measure in which the current Government rectifies past errors. Both positions distance a hypothetical measure of grace from the social climate that required a measure like this: social consensus, reconciliation and recognition between the parties.. But all of this is very far from what the independence movement maintains in its actions and related media..

JxCAT does not renounce unilaterality, as Carles Puigdemont himself alleges. The bulk of the independence discourse means that for many constitutionalist Catalans there are many doubts regarding the latest political initiative of Pedro Sánchez. This is worrying in Moncloa because surveys indicate that in Spain as a whole the rejection is even greater.. But at this moment, Catalonia is the great electoral base of socialism, so the internal communication effort is being made within the formation. This behind-the-scenes policy contrasts with the official silence and lack of statements by the PSOE on this issue in the public sphere.. The PSC promised social peace in Catalonia. And that continues to do.