Antoni Bassas's analysis: 'Sánchez's resistance reaches its limit'
The blow to the Spanish government is enormous. Sánchez is fortunate that none of the other parliamentary groups want to vote for Feijóo as president in a motion of no confidence. Because, as if that weren't enough, yesterday it became definitively clear that there will be no national budget for 2026 and that we will be facing another budget extension.
Something has happened again that has never happened before, which is that a sitting member of parliament goes to prison.
Yesterday, the judge ordered the unconditional imprisonment of former minister and former PSOE organizational secretary, José Luis Ábalos. Before losing his freedom, Ábalos went on the media to speak ill of President Sánchez's wife. I read this morning that Ábalos will sleep in the same cell as Koldohis assistant. As I told you yesterday: this is a cesspool that is very closely implicating Pedro Sánchez, and the Socialists can't say that this is lawfare: for Sánchez to drop Cerdán and Ábalos there was more than just indications that they had greased their fingers.
The blow to the Spanish government is enormous. Sánchez is fortunate that none of the other parliamentary groups want to vote for Feijóo as president in a motion of no confidence. This is what is keeping the Spanish government afloat and leading it to believe it can hold out until 2027. Because, as if that weren't enough, yesterday it became definitively clear that there will be no national budget for 2026 and that we will go for another budget extension
Yesterday, the deficit targets were voted on in Congress, a necessary step before the budget can be presented. The PP, Vox, and Junts voted against them, Podemos abstained, and one deputy from Compromís also voted against. The fact that these votes determine how quickly money circulates to citizens in the form of budgets is not the priority of the parties that voted against them. Before that comes the fulfillment of agreements, the reminder that they didn't elect Sánchez president so he could then do whatever he wanted. All of this is a disaster. A disaster with news like this:
In Catalonia there are 1.4 million working poorCaritas says that a child born with serious social problems will easily become an adult with the same problems, but that there are now adults raised in more or less well-off families who are beginning to fall into poverty.
And that's it. Last night We celebrated ARA's 15th anniversary with a party at the Palau de la Música CatalanaIt was an extraordinary evening that I recommend you watch on our website, because it had moments like the appearance of Graciela, the little girl sitting on Dr. Broggi's lap on the first cover, who is now 15 years old and in her fourth year of secondary school; the words of the first ARA International Prize winner, Theodor Kallifatides; the greeting from Juan Carlos Unzué; the award winners Tatiana Sisquella, Ignasi Pujol, and Carles Capdevila; and the live reflections of Albert Om, Mònica Planas, Xavier Bosch, Empar Moliner, Carme Colomina, and Toni Soler, who compared Catalonia in 2010 with the one to come, but also many fears. And to combat them, good journalism is necessary.
Good morning.
