The election results in Saxony-Anhalt have fallen like a bucket of cold water on Germany and Europe as a whole. The continental wave of the far-right, which at one point seemed to be slowing down, has suddenly returned to the heart of Nazi amnesia. And it has received the applause of Trump-Musk-Putin. The AfD is pro-Kremlin and wants support for Ukraine to stop. The worst ghosts of anti-democratic xenophobia hover over the Old Continent.

With the new academic year after the summer break, young Juan Pich-Aguilera Blasco joins the seminary, after resigning as a Vox member in Valldoreix and leaving everything behind to become a priest. He followed the example of his brother Pablo, who has been a priest for seven years. It so happens that they are all descendants of an important Catalan textile dynasty –the Pich-Aguileras–, which began its textile foray in 1886 and still owns the historic company Sedatex. But this lineage not only has these priests, nor has Juan been the only family asset within Vox. What is the dynasty that nourishes the Church and Santiago Abascal's party like?

The week ends with the hangover from yesterday's debate in Congress. Just 24 hours later, what we anticipated yesterday on the fly is already being confirmed: Sánchez's explanations arrived late, remain overshadowed by the reality of the thousands of people who are still wandering through Ceuta and, therefore, the Spanish president is doomed. Neither the opposition nor the investiture partners believe that Morocco had nothing to do with it (it is impossible for the illegal displacement of seventy thousand people to go unnoticed by a regime like Morocco) and therefore Sánchez moves between the figure of someone who, for the sake of state, does not want to antagonize a neighbor with the capacity to complicate your life and that of a president who is a victim of blackmail by Morocco. The fact that Sánchez is sentenced is a metaphor, but for the PP and Vox it is a wish. Feijóo said yesterday that “Sánchez will pay for his management, at the polls and in the courts”. And the fact is that Vox has long been reminding that Sánchez can be tried for treason, a procedure that is regulated in article 102 of the Constitution and which would be handled by the criminal chamber of the Supreme Court and which consists of an initiative by a quarter of the members of the Congress of Deputies and requires the approval of half plus one of the deputies (this would be 176), and the PP and Vox alone do not reach it, they are 169.Beyond when and how the legislative term ends, the case has other equally serious dimensions. For example, the power of Morocco, an ally of the United States, with a good relationship with Israel, and which receives money from the EU to regulate migratory flows. This gives it great bargaining power. As our head of International, Francesc Millan, explains today, in this column in which he draws the contrast between how the EU stands together when Russia attacks, but when the problem has been at its southern border, the problem was Spanish, not European. Mind you, while we talk about geopolitics, yesterday more than 80 people appeared dead on a migrant boat that arrived in the Canary Islands. The boat had left Gambia 26 days ago. After decades of apparently predictable life, we have entered the era of life under threat, a hybrid, indirect, disruptive threat that prevents making plans and living under the impression (more or less based on real events) that life depends on us and not on external, geopolitical factors.Speaking of violent disruptions, yesterday the film Cronos, about the attacks on La Rambla and Cambrils in July 2017.I had the opportunity to watch it and I recommend it to you. You start watching it with a knot in your stomach and you finish it the same way.The pace set by the director is very high and sustained, the script is clear, the acting is competent, and the production is well-resourced. The story is told, above all, from within the Mossos, from Trapero to the commanders who led the capture of the terrorists, which lasted four days, passing through the Mossos' communication director, Patrícia Plaja, and her impeccable crisis communication during those days. The political dispute between the Spanish government and the Generalitat over the management and information regarding the attack is noted, as well as the regrettable leak of The Mossos-The note to make the Mossos and the Generalitat look bad. What is not provided as context is that there was only a month and a half left until October 1st. And the state of shock in Ripoll is also well noted. Not so much the story of boys who were apparently integrated but were ripe for radicalization. But since we are talking about a two-hour film and not a six-part series, many narrative threads come to mind that remain to be unfolded.

The Municipal Group of Compromís in Castelló declares that it will request explanations from the municipal government of the PP and Vox, led by Begoña Carrasco, "regarding the situation of the humanitarian aid collected in Castelló for the people affected by the earthquakes in Venezuela".

The Vox deputy and party leader in Girona, Alberto Tarradas Paneque, is back in action thanks to controversy. He reappeared last Saturday, being the only Vox leader to attend the anti-immigration rally of Save Europe Act, which included white supremacists and racists among the just over 50 attendees.the anti-immigration rally of Save Europe Act, which included white supremacists and racists among the just over 50 attendees.

The concept of national priority that the Spanish far-right is promoting today – with Vox at the forefront and a PP that has accepted it without much critical spirit or nuances (this summer they have included it in the Valencian Country budgets)– it is no historical novelty, but a euphemism with a long and dark genealogy. Behind its administrative and neutral appearance hides a profoundly disturbing logic: the idea that there exists a human community authentic and pure, whose rights are ontologically superior to those who, by birth, religion, language or ethnicity, are classified as the others. This narrative constructs a hierarchy of deserved humanities in which some fully deserve and others deserve less, or not at all. And this hierarchy, however subtle it may seem in its initial formulation, tends historically to justify first discrimination, then segregation, later expulsion, and, in its most extreme versions, extermination. It is, therefore, not a harmless starting point that can be stopped at will at some reasonable point along the way, but a slope with a known direction.

A few days ago, Vox spread the idea that they had banned the halal menu in Valencian schools. The majority of media outlets took the bait and debates for and against multiplied on social media. But it turns out it wasn't true. The newspaper El Paíspublishes this Wednesday a report by journalist Ignacio Zafra that is an example of good journalism. Zafra has looked into the details of the approved regulation, which only states that, in the case of meat, "the slaughter of the animal must have been carried out using a prior stunning procedure", and has confirmed with sources from the meat sector that most halal products already comply with this requirement. Immediately after, he called the Ministry of Education and they confirmed to him that the claim of the ban is false, and that schools can continue to offer menus according to students' beliefs, whether for religious, medical or any other reason. For example, if a vegan menu is desired.

The spokesperson for the PSPV-PSOE in the Corts, José Muñoz, today demanded the resignation of the Minister of Emergencies and Interior, Juan Carlos Valderrama, after holding up during his appearance in the Permanent Deputation of the Corts the serious deficiencies that the fire extinction service of the Valencian Community is suffering from. “You are a real public danger as Minister of Emergencies,” Muñoz stated, addressing Valderrama, before directly demanding that he leave office: “Resign and make way for someone else.”

Saturday, Sant Jaume square in Barcelona hosted the first demonstration in Spain of the ultra movement Save Europe Act, which calls for "remigration" – the forced return of non-European migrants. The rally, with only about fifty people, showed a drop in attendance amidst unanimous rejection from institutions and social fabric. The Barcelona City Council announced it will take racist messages expressed during the demonstration to the prosecutor's office – as the Government had also planned on Friday – while the Comuns denounced the act to the Generalitat on Sunday and demanded sanctions of up to 500,000 euros for xenophobic speeches. Previously, parties like the CUP, ERC, and the Comuns themselves had already called to open the way to ban the mobilization; a request shared by the groups present at the anti-fascist counter-demonstration on Saturday in the square. However, can acts like this be banned?

That Vox returns to govern in four autonomous communities, in coalition with the PP, is one of the novelties of this political year. After the elections in Extremadura, Aragon, Castilla y León, and Andalusia, the balance for the far-right is that it has obtained four vice-presidencies of autonomous executives, to which five more ministries must be added. This has meant a new strategic turn for Santiago Abascal's party after the decision to abandon governmental responsibilities two years ago. The opposition stage to the Popular Party, which has seen Vox's electoral growth, has given way to a new phase in which the party is committed to governing. The possibility now opens up for them to apply their policies in the areas they have secured from negotiations with the PP, such as agriculture, livestock, forest management, social services, family, tourism, culture, and, newly created applying their own framework, deregulation.

The far-right, which claims the primacy of the "autochthonous" and "white" population in Europe, puts Barcelona on the map of its continental offensive. The Save Europe Act movement – which calls on the European Union for the forced "remigration" (expulsion) of non-European migrants to protect the "ethnic continuity" of the continent's "native peoples" – will make its first stop in Spain this Saturday, August 22, in Plaça Sant Jaume in Barcelona. The event is part of a tour that has already passed through Brussels, Utrecht, Lyon, and Lille, and comes at a time when immigration management – with the Ceuta crisis as a backdrop – is at the center of European political debate.

Intersindical Valenciana (STEPV) has denounced the budget accompanying law and Article 155, which calls for "ensuring ideological neutrality in educational centers, supervising that teaching activities, curricular materials, and school events remain alien to any kind of indoctrination".

It is often said that in politics everything has been seen: unnatural alliances, sudden changes of position or leaders who move to another party. In fact, moving from one party to another is not exceptional in Catalonia. With the 'Procés', leaders from the PSC or ICV joined ERC, representatives from Cs joined the PP with the decline of the orange party, and now Junts officials are moving to Aliança. What is not usual are the changes of allegiance between parties located at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum.

Since it was put on the table, Vox has made the amnesty law one of its main battle horses, promising actively and passively that, if it comes to the Spanish government, it will "reverse" and "repeal" the norm immediately. The People's Party has also joined this idea, and its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in a dynamic that, analyzing the archives, is common among the populars: promising the repeal of PSOE laws to end up keeping them intact once they come to power —as happened in the past with the abortion law or same-sex marriage. Despite the constant insistence of the far-right on this supposed repeal, the threat clashes head-on with an insurmountable wall: the architecture of the rule of law. According to experts consulted by ARA, Vox's promise is legally unfeasible and the elimination of the law would have practically no effect on the accused. In fact, the party itself admits to ARA that it is aware of this legal wall.

The PSC, Junts, ERC, Comuns, and CUP have reached an agreement to reform the Parliament's regulations and incorporate the chamber's Code of Conduct, which outlines possible sanctions for deputies who violate it, as reported this Wednesday by El Periódico and confirmed by ARA. The reform, aimed at protecting against hate speech, would clarify reprimands based on the seriousness of the acts and the work, which falls to the Committee on the Status of the Deputy and the board: from 600 to 6,000 euros for serious infractions and from 6,001 to 12,000 euros for very serious ones.

Mallorcans have, or we have, as a society, a certain reputation for being apathetic and conformist. I won't say it's not a somewhat deserved reputation, but it has a more interesting flip side. This same society also forms a country of sensible and elegant people, with a deep allergy to bad manners, rudeness, exaggerated gestures, and violence in any form. For the citizens of this country called Mallorca, there are few things less interesting than losing one's composure and irony, losing one's temper, becoming solemn or intransigent. And let's not even mention becoming aggressive: all of this, in Mallorca, is frankly frowned upon.This country, despite what some say, exists, and it manifested itself again on Sunday in a massive and exemplary way through the streets of Palma. More than 70,000 people came out to demand that good sense be applied to tourism and real estate policies. The current model is extractive and parasitic, with large profits concentrated in a few hands and a very long list of social problems that citizens/taxpayers suffer. Speculation, the impossibility for a large part of the population to access housing, the expulsion of people who literally cannot afford to live here, growing inequalities, job insecurity, premature abandonment of studies, overpopulation, coexistence difficulties, and social fracture. It was against all this that the Majorcans demonstrated this Sunday.The success of the call – by the platform Menys Turisme, Més Vida, with the support of 145 entities – materialized in a true human wave (as you can read inAra Balears) that marched through the center of Palma without insults, without tension, with a cheerful tone and impeccable civic attitude. The protest was truly historic, comparable to few in Mallorca's recent history. Faced with a mobilization of this magnitude, business owners and politicians can only do one sensible thing: get to work on the corrections they are being asked for.On the other hand, what they did was send the National Police to beat citizens. Provocations, impediments and, finally, police charges with batons and rubber bullet shots, resulting in several minor injuries and a photojournalist seriously injured in the head. An absolute and intolerable disgrace, the primary responsibility for which lies with the delegate of the Spanish government, Alfonso Rodríguez, who should indeed resign, as is demanded from all sides. The PP and Vox government should not think, however, that they benefit from this: they wanted exactly this, to be able to accuse the demonstration of being “violent”. They had been trying for weeks to disqualify and criminalize the protests, and Vice President Antoni Costa went as far as to invite those who request a reduction in tourism to “pack their bags”. On Sunday, the Majorcans set an example of dignity, and their rulers, of indignity and ineptitude. Sunday, too, something broke between the Majorcans and their institutional representatives.

It was not the first territory where the PP and Vox agreed to a joint government, as Castilla y León had done a year and four months earlier, but the Valencian Community will indeed be the first autonomous community to include the criterion of "national priority" in its budgets. Specifically, in various allocations for the granting of social aid.

Parliament acted this Tuesday against the violations of the Code of Conduct in the hemicycle. After nine months and dragging four files –one from Aliança Catalana and three from Vox– before the Committee on the Status of Deputies, the body chaired by Antoni Castellà (Junts) agreed, in a secret closed-door session, to classify the actions of the leader of Aliança Catalana, Sílvia Orriols, as a minor offense. Now the committee will transfer this opinion to the bureau of Parliament, which will be responsible for deciding and applying the final sanction. This punishment can range from a public reprimand to a financial fine of between 600 and 12,000 euros.

The US President, Donald Trump, and the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, are two allies of Vox who have been a constant pain in the neck for the far-right party. Until now, Santiago Abascal's formation had responded timidly to the US president's outbursts, which had allowed the rebel former leaders or left-wing formations to accuse Vox of being Trump's "slaves". However, this week the party has slightly raised its voice to distance itself from the US president's threat to cut trade with Spain or Trump's harassment of the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, to whom, with an ironic tone, he said he wanted "a restraining order". The objective is to consolidate a shift that has been debated for some time in the Vox leadership to put an end to the meek image the party had projected until now. The culmination was between March and April, when Israel carried out attacks against Christians. It was then that the national leadership made a decision, according to sources familiar with the matter consulted by ARA: "We have to distance ourselves, like Meloni".

Any information that alters the perception of reality is news. A CEO poll has become an event because it attributes to Aliança Catalana an unusual jump from 2 seats to a range of 23-25 (third force). A punishment for Junts that has just been rounded off with ERC's conversion into the second force. The PSC, with a certain setback, continues to lead the situation. The left of the left, Comuns and company, remains in limbo.