The spokesperson for Junts in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, has stated that her party is not here to “put in or take out” Spanish governments and has insisted that Sánchez must call early elections. “We do not have the button for elections nor do we have the button for the motion, because with seven deputies we cannot make a motion,” she added. Meanwhile, the PP has asked the PSOE to retract the statements made by the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, this Thursday, when he said he believes a conspiracy is underway to overthrow the Government “by undemocratic methods.” “They are conspiracy theorists and it is normal; I understand that they feel overwhelmed by the reality of the facts we are learning. We wish them courage and hope they withdraw those statements,” said Alma Ezcurra, Deputy Secretary of Sectoral Coordination of the PP, at a press conference. In addition, the Popular Party continues to pressure the Government’s partners. “Sánchez will only leave La Moncloa by two paths. One is by calling elections and the other is because his partners expel him. And since the first does not seem likely to happen, the solution is in the hands of the second. They will have to pick up the phone and tell the president: ‘This is over,’” Ezcurra stated.
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Government
Aznar strikes again against Sánchez: “The only possible way out is new elections”
Monday. Tuesday. And Friday. And Saturday and Sunday are still to come. José María Aznar has had a very active week. Both on social media and in public appearances. The former Prime Minister uploaded a new video this Friday to his Instagram and Facebook profiles, where he has hundreds of thousands of followers. Aznar has again called for early elections due to “the unbearable atmosphere of corruption” in Spain.
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The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, this Friday in Madrid. / Jaime Villanueva
Vox recovers 1.5 points in voting intention after two months of decline, according to the May CIS Barometer
The PSOE would be the most voted party in a general election according to the May CIS barometer and would obtain 36.2% of the votes. The socialists lose two tenths compared to April and are 11.3 points behind the PP, which would get 24.9% of the votes. After two months of decline, Vox recovers 1.5 points and stands at 16.2% in voting intention. The institute led by José Félix Tezanos gives Sumar 5.7% of the votes and Podemos 2.5%.
The fieldwork for this barometer was carried out in the first days of the month, fully coinciding with the campaign for the Andalusian elections on May 17. Therefore, the May study does not reflect the effect of these elections on the electorate, nor the impact of the indictment of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in the Plus Ultra case nor the entry of the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard into the PSOE headquarters at the request of the National Court magistrate Santiago Pedraz, who is investigating an alleged “plot aimed at destabilizing judicial proceedings” affecting the Government or that party.
However, it does reflect the agreements between the PP and Vox in Extremadura and Aragón, in which the Popular Party assumed far-right positions such as the principle of “national priority,” which means privileging Spaniards over immigrants in access to aid, benefits, and public services.
Mónica García defends the Government: “We have been accountable, we are clean, and we have come to work”
The Minister of Health and co-leader of Más Madrid, Mónica García, has once again defended the coalition Government this Friday, while calling on former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the PSOE to “give explanations” for the alleged corruption cases under investigation affecting various party leaders and former senior officials. “I defend that the members of the Government are transparent, we have been accountable, we are clean, we have come to work, and I belong to the transformative left, which has governed and has zero corruption cases and zero cases of representing lobbies,” García said in statements to the media after the inauguration of the event for World No Tobacco Day in Madrid. “From our parliamentary group, we will always represent the citizens and transformative policies,” she emphasized.
The PP asks the PSOE to retract the complaint about a “non-democratic” conspiracy to topple the Government
Alma Ezcurra, Deputy Secretary of Sectoral Coordination of the PP, has asked the PSOE to retract the statements made by the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, this Thursday, when he said he believes a conspiracy is underway to overthrow the Government “by undemocratic methods.” “Talking about a coup d’état from a ministry of the Government of Spain is blowing up the institutional framework in this country and has the full condemnation of the Popular Party. They are conspiracy theorists and it is normal; I understand that they feel overwhelmed by the reality of the facts we are learning. We wish them courage and hope they withdraw those statements,” she said at a press conference.
Ezcurra again pressured the Government’s partners this Friday. “Sánchez will only leave La Moncloa by two paths. One is by calling elections and the other is because his partners expel him. And since the first does not seem likely to happen, the solution is in the hands of the second. They will have to pick up the phone and tell the president: ‘this is over,’” she said at a press conference.
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The Popular spokesperson has denounced that the PSOE corruption cases “are not isolated” and has assured that “the most serious thing is the State operations against everything that gets in the way.” “Spain has been left without a government, Pedro Sánchez now only governs to survive and has tied the fate of a country to his judicial future,” Ezcurra added.
PSOE
Two investigations into PSOE payments with a common link: the secretaries of Organization under suspicion
Payments made from the national headquarters of the PSOE, on Ferraz Street in Madrid, are again under the scrutiny of justice following the indictment of former PSOE Secretary of Organization Santos Cerdán as the alleged ringleader of a criminal “organization” designed to “destabilize” judicial cases affecting the party or the Government. The National Court has been investigating since last year the cash reimbursements that the PSOE gives to its officials and workers when they advance daily expenses, but to this case, which Judge Ismael Moreno has kept secret since December, have now been added investigations into possible money transfers, backed by false invoices, to pay members of the alleged corrupt network focused on sabotaging judicial investigations. The party defends that its accounts are audited and that if any leader committed irregularities, they were “undetectable.”
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‘Leire Case’
Investigative journalist or paid ‘fixer’: the contradictions of Leire Díez
A journalist, a citizen with rights, and above all, a socialist. Therefore, when cases affecting the PSOE arose, Leire Díez put “special enthusiasm” into preparing a book about the State’s underworld. This is how the former socialist militant presented and defended herself publicly almost a year ago, after several audios were leaked in which she offered to mediate in trials for businessmen indicted in various cases in exchange for information about, for example, the UCO lieutenant colonel, Antonio Balas.
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Junts hopes Sánchez will call elections: “We are not here to put in or take out Spanish governments”
The spokesperson for Junts in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, has stated that her party is not here to “put in or take out” Spanish governments and has insisted that Sánchez must call early elections. “We are not here to support anyone, to endure anyone. We are here to talk and do politics and help people,” she said in an interview on TVE. “We do not have the button for elections nor do we have the button for the motion, because with seven deputies we cannot make a motion,” she added.
Nogueras also criticized the lack of measures against Government corruption. “On July 9 last year, President Sánchez already appeared and told us that a series of anti-corruption measures would be implemented. Almost a year has passed and not only has nothing happened, nothing has been executed, but the situation is even worse.”
The CIS publishes its May barometer today, conducted during the Andalusian campaign and before Zapatero’s indictment
The Center for Sociological Research (CIS) is scheduled to publish this Friday its Opinion Barometer for the month of May, whose fieldwork was carried out during the campaign for the Andalusian elections on May 17 and before the indictment of former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
According to sources from the polling organization, the interviews for this barometer were conducted between May 3 and 18, just as the campaign for the Andalusian regional elections of May 17 was underway, which was won by the Popular Party’s Juanma Moreno, although he lost the absolute majority and left the key to the future Andalusian government in the hands of Vox. Two days after the vote, on May 19, the order was made public by which the National Court judge José Luis Calama summoned Zapatero as an investigated party and pointed to him as the alleged leader of an influence trafficking plot to rescue the Venezuelan airline Plus Ultra, which ended up receiving a state loan of 53 million euros during the coronavirus pandemic. (EP)
Good morning. The judges of the National Court continue their investigations in two cases that have been a blow to the PSOE: the investigation of former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and the Leire case, in which the secrecy of the file is about to be lifted. The Government is currently maintaining its roadmap and its economic and social agenda until 2027, and this Friday the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, presents the National Plan of External Cultural Action, at an event at the Cervantes Institute headquarters accompanied by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, and Culture, Ernest Urtasun.
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