MP in Congress Meritxell Batet, new Spanish minister of public administrations
She will be in charge of regional affairs amid the ongoing Catalan push for independence
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Looking for alternatives: day 12 of the election campaign
With only 5 days to go until December 21, claws are out as parties try to convince voters that they are the right choice
All taxes should be collected in Catalonia, proposes Socialist leader
Esquerra Republicana recruits 14,000 polling agents to make sure there is no “electoral fraud”
Catalan socialists urge all political parties to “back down” and work for “reconciliation”
Main candidate for PSC says that he doesn't accept “the country model that the pro-independence parties left behind”
Spain’s attorney general will act without “hesitation” against Oct 1 referendum
Supreme Court president says attitudes from pro-independence leaders’ “damage democracy” and are “unacceptable”
PSOE and PSC aim to stay together despite tension over Rajoy vote
Tensions between the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) and the Catalan Socialist Party (PSC) over the Spanish investiture will not break their relationship, according to both parties. Seven Catalan Socialist MPs voted last Saturday against Rajoy’s reelection, breaking ranks with the main Spanish party, which abstained, and prompting sanctions against them. However, the PSOE interim leadership expressed on Wednesday its commitment to a “balanced and symmetrical” relation with the Catalan Socialists. The PSC leader, Àngel Ros, stated in similar terms that his party does not plan to change its relationship with the PSOE despite the disciplinary proceedings against the MPs that decided not to abstain. The Catalan Socialist MPs have always argued that they voted ‘no’ to Rajoy “according to their conscience”.
Catalan Socialists “to disobey” PSOE and say ‘no’ to Rajoy investiture
“We will disobey and we are willing to face the consequences”, stated this Monday Catalan Socialist Party (PSC) leader, Miquel Iceta. He was referring to the PSC’s will to say ‘no’to the reinvestiture of current Spanish President Mariano Rajoy, in opposition to the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) position, who agreed in its federal committee this Sunday to abstain and facilitate the Conservative People’s Party (PP) to form government. “We will vote the same way as the other Socialists in the first round, but in the second one we will vote ‘no’, regardless of how the othersvote”, he assured in an interview with Catalan radio Rac1. Iceta also referred to the current relationship between PSOE and the Catalan Socialists. Although he believes that keeping the current scenario is “the best”solution, he admitted that PSOE “has the right”to reconsider the relationship with PSC.