Unlike interviews in traditional media, where party campaign teams usually demand speed from journalists and the time they dedicate does not reach an hour, the main candidates for the presidency of Spain –Pedro Sánchez, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Ada Colau– have given a long interview to the youtuber from Manresa, Jordi Wild. The only one who did not do so was Santiago Abascal, leader of Vox, who backed out hours before recording the interview alleging discrepancies with the management of his image rights. What headlines, in any case, have the conversations that did take place left? In a more relaxed format, Feijóo talked about the fact of not knowing English, Pedro Sánchez about his relationship with the 'Procés' and Ada Colau reflected on the reasons that have led her now to take the step into Spanish politics. Although they were not recorded this Friday, the three interviews were published consecutively this morning.

The judge of the Gijón Court of First Instance has ordered the total cessation of the activity of Núcleo Nacional and the closure of its headquarters in Madrid, Burgos, and Valladolid, as well as the blocking of the digital content of its social media profiles. The decision comes after the arrest of 14 of its members last Friday. Furthermore, the magistrate has imposed several precautionary measures on the detainees, such as the withdrawal of their passports, the prohibition of leaving the national territory, and the obligation to report weekly to the court.

On the occasion of the start of the election campaign, this November 12, at 8 p.m., we broadcast a special live program to follow the first movements and analyze the keys that will define 29-N.

Less than 24 hours before a general strike motivated, among other issues, by the unsustainable housing situation in Catalonia and Spain, and a few hours before putting the Maricarmen decrees to a vote in the Permanent Deputation of Congress, scheduled for this Thursday, the Popular Party has presented its electoral program for the general elections on November 29th, with a warning to all concerned regarding housing. The party proposes up to 14 sectoral measures in this area, among which the outright repeal of the state housing law, approved in 2023 and recently reformed, stands out.

David Broncano, presenter of La revuelta, the entertainment program on La 1, has spent some quite complicated last hours after this Monday's interview with the leader of Vox and candidate for the November 29 general elections, Santiago Abascal. The RTVE presenter had already acknowledged his mistakes on the street and did so again before interviewing the leader of the Broad Front, Ada Colau, this Tuesday. With her, he tried to recover the comic register that usually characterizes the program.

Only a few days after the former mayor of Barcelona and presidential candidate for the Broad Front in the general elections of November 29, Ada Colau, demanded from the Hotel Ritz in Madrid a tax hike on the highest incomes, the tax the rich has left its mark on the dialogue between the parties and the small and medium-sized Catalan companies. In the now traditional "SMEs debate", organized by the business association Pimec and which aspires to bring together the main political groups running for a seat in the Congress of Deputies, the debate on taxation has drawn the lines between political blocs 20 days before election day. In the debate, however, not all of the number ones participated: Gabriel Rufián was absent, alleging "scheduling reasons".

The National Police arrested 12 members of the far-right organization Núcleo Nacional this Friday as part of an operation coordinated by a court in Gijón. The arrests took place in different parts of the State, following an investigation initiated due to the disturbances recorded in the Asturian city. The detainees are accused of illicit association and a hate crime, as reported by Eldiario.es. The National Police confirmed to ARA the arrest of 12 members of the far-right organization Núcleo Nacional, and sources from the Ministry of the Interior state that the operation remains open and that searches are being carried out in several provinces.

The doctor in contemporary history from the UAB Eloi Gummà (Barcelona, 1995) narrates in the book From anti-Francoism to Pujolism. The struggle for hegemony (Akal) the factors that caused the left, despite leading the opposition to the dictatorship, to end up losing to Convergència, which governed Catalonia for more than two consecutive decades.

From Monday, November 23rd, until the closing of polling stations on the night of November 29th, the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG) prohibits the publication of polls, surveys, and barometers that could influence the decision of voters. Barring any unforeseen circumstances of force majeure, the campaigns of the nearly fifty parties and coalitions aspiring to obtain representation in Congress and the Senate will focus, at least on paper, on responding to the citizens' concerns and imposing their own agenda to differentiate themselves from the rest of the political options.

Almost 400 podcast episodes later, a resident of Bages could hold one of the keys to connecting with the youth vote in the next general elections. Jordi Wild, or Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz Torres (Manresa, 1984), has turned The Wild Project in one of the benchmark podcasts of the digital ecosystem in Spanish. Now, a few days before the elections, the content creator has managed to get Pedro Sánchez, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and Ada Colau to agree to step up to his microphones. Although it was planned that Santiago Abascal would also submit himself to the questions of the man from Manresa, the leader of Vox declined the interview after passing through La Revuelta, by David Broncano. The three remaining interviews will be published in the coming hours, in a move that places a youtuber at the center of the communication strategy of the main candidates for the Moncloa.

I think it was on Garriga's program, or in any case through one of Paula Brujats' reports (an excellent job, delicate, empathetic, serious) that we heard the testimony of a woman who had no news of her husband. The woman exclaimed: “Let them all be killed!” And it was understood that she meant “the politicians”. Rage, when it comes from pain, is irrepressible. It may be legitimate (who wouldn't want the heads of those allegedly responsible for those who have destroyed your life?) but it cannot be taken into account, nor used. Vox, yesterday, continued with their campaign acts, and their leaders took to the stages, angrier than the victims –and, therefore, assuming a grotesque protagonism– to rail against the government like offended and sulky creatures. This woman wanting them dead “all of them” is fuel for the lawnmowers of the angry parties.

More than half a hundred constituencies, dozens of parties and three maps so you don't get lost among the ballots. The Official State Gazette (BOE) published this Wednesday the candidacies for Congress for the general elections of November 29th. Although the parties, coalitions, and electoral groups can still file allegations, the electoral board already outlines the options that citizens will find at the polls in the 52 constituencies.

Applause, hugs, and smiles were not lacking this Monday at the Junts headquarters in Barcelona. The sovereignist party is smiling again with a new step towards the normalization of Catalan political life: the return of former ministers Toni Comín and Lluís Puig, who participated in person in the party's executive meeting after nine years of exile. The joy, however, is not complete. The polls are not in their favor and point to a possible electoral decline on November 29th, a symptom of the difficulties of their political strategy to convince the electorate. According to the polls collected by ARA, the sovereignist party could lose up to half of its seats in the upcoming elections, with an average of projections that places them between four and five deputies in Congress.

She had never considered dedicating herself to politics. Now she is the new head of the PSC list for Lleida in the general elections of November 29th. "In my life, everything is the result of coincidences," explains Cristina Morón (Lleida, 1979) with a laugh. For several years, she was the point person for the dependency law at the Lleida City Council, where she worked as a social worker. After a conversation with Fèlix Larrosa, she received an offer to enter municipal politics. Now, a new unexpected proposal has changed her plans once again: "It was four-thirty in the afternoon and I received a WhatsApp call from a number I did not have registered, and it says: 'I am Salvador Illa, can you talk?'", explains Morón regarding the conversation in which she was proposed to head the PSC list for Lleida in Congress, after the resignation of Montse Mínguez. The decision came to her with little time to think it over, half an hour before the party's national council began. "Imagine how my heart was pounding," she recalls in conversation with the ARA.

The Spanish political debate increasingly resembles sports talk shows or social chronicles. And you, who are you with? With the squatters or the large property holders? What an absurd dilemma! But if we reach the maximum synthesis of electoral offers, as presented to us on social media, it seems we are driven to this kind of Manichaeism. And we cannot afford it: We have two enormous challenges ahead, which are housing and immigration. Both are intimately related, and have to do with the Problem with a capital P, which is the impoverishment of the middle and lower classes, and the bankruptcy of public services. It is a question of economic model, but for the parties, the pundits, and the influencers it is easier and more comfortable to reduce it to a cultural issue, of values. Equality/freedom. Order/disorder. Identity/diversity. Broncano/Motos. And here at home, too, Spain/Catalonia. Or Hispanicity/Catalanicity. Or Islam/Orriols.

The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has entered the debate on the minimum interprofessional wage (SMI) and the taxation of labor income with statements that do not fully align with reality. In an interview this Friday on Cadena SER, the popular leader claimed that the Spanish government has made "a good deal" with the minimum wage increases because, according to him, the State collects more money through social security contributions and personal income tax (IRPF).

For days, the Broad Front and Podemos have been blaming each other for the failure of left-wing unity ahead of November 29th. The candidacy led by Ada Colau boasts of having brought together fifteen different parties under its banner, although the four main parties have been the ones leading the way: Comuns, Sumar, Más Madrid, and United Left (IU). Now there will be fourteen, as confirmed by ARA, because one of the two sects that had joined has pulled out of the Broad Front. The Humanist Party, founded in 1984 under the umbrella of the IU—and which left two years later amidst accusations of sectarianism—, has finally rejected the offer after consulting its membership.

“There are owners who are afraid because, if a squatter enters their home, with a paper that proves they have ordered a pizza, no one can kick them out for a few years.” The PP candidate for the general elections, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, said this on Wednesday at an event in Seville, where he outlined his party's proposals on housing. According to the conservative leader, a person could prove their residence in a home with what has become popular as "the pizza method".

In the eyes of the majority of the population, the Senate may seem like a representative chamber with little utility in the day-to-day of parliamentary politics. However, the electoral call has shown that it is a contested terrain because it can become a counterweight capable of pressuring or obstructing the action of the Spanish government, just as the People's Party has done from the opposition over the last few years. But, depending on the majorities that emerge from November 29, the right could even aspire to make deeper changes: even to the Constitution.