8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (17)
#8103069 at 2020-02-11 18:33:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10372: The Pics Ain't Loadin' Edition
Two Ex-Spanish Prime Ministers Summoned to Testify in Gurtel Corruption Case
Former Spanish prime ministers Mariano Rajoy and Jose Maria Aznar will testify before the National Court in a trial on alleged financial misconduct within their right-leaning party Partido Popular (People's Party, PP), the Spanish state television said on Tuesday.
According to the TVE broadcaster, they will be asked whether they knew or not about the existence of a "b-box," or an unofficial party fund that was topped up through illegal means, an allegation put forward against the entire party leadership by former treasurer Jose Luis Barcenas, now jailed for 33 years within the same case.
The large-scale scandal involving the PP's illicit funds has been ongoing for several years now and is known in Spain as the Gurtel case. It alleges businessman Francisco Correa Sanchez in using the party and its members for money laundering and tax evasion at the cost of bribes and kickbacks.
The upcoming trial is specifically about 900,000 euros ($980,000) that the party spent for its Madrid headquarters' renovation in 2007-2008 - the prosecution believes the money came from the unaccounted shadow fund.
Aside from Rajoy and Aznar, witnesses will include all former People's Party general secretaries, several ministers and the former senate head, as well as the construction companies OHL, Sacyr ? FCC that were hired for repairs in Madrid.
This will be Rajoy's second time to testify within the Gurtel case. In 2018, it cost him a vote of no confidence and subsequent ouster as prime minister.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202002111078289519-two-ex-spanish-prime-ministers-summoned-to-testify-in-gurtel-corruption-case–reports/
#5824416 at 2019-03-22 10:44:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7450: The Graveyard Edition
>>5824310
Some prominent Masons involved at various levels in the economic and political construction of the crisis in Europe are here listed (p. 448-456 in the book):
- Barack Obama (US President, "Maat", *Ur-Lodge founded by Zbiegniew Brzezinski and expression of a compromise between conservatives and progressives Ur-masons);
- Vladimir Putin (Russian Federation President, "Golden Eurasia");
- Angela Merkel (German Chancelor since 2005, "Golden Eurasia", "Valhalla", "Parsifal");
- Christine Lagarde (FMI Director, "Three Eyes", "Pan-Europa");
- George W. Bush (US President from 2001 to 2009, "Hathor Pentalpha");
- Michael Leeden (US journalist and political expert, "White Eagle", "Hathor Pentalpha");
- Condoleezza Rice (US Politician, "Three Eyes", "Hathor Pentalpha");
- Madeleine Albright (US politician, "Three Eyes", "Leviathan");
- Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi (Leader of Isis and so-called Islamic Caliphate, "Hathor Pentalpha");
- Tony Blair (UK Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007, "Edmund Burke", then "Hathor Pentalpha");
- David Cameron (UK Prime Minister since 2010, "Edmund Burke", "Geburah");
- Mariano Rajoy (Prime Minister of Spain since 2011, "Pan-Europa", "Valhalla", "Parsifal");
- Antonis Samaras (Greek Prime Minister since 2013, "Three Eyes");
- Nicolas Sarkozy (Politician, President of France from 2007 to 2012, "Edmund Burke", "Geburah", "Atlantis-Aletheia", "Pan-Europa", "Hathor Pentalpha");
- Manuel Valls (French Prime Minister since 2012, first Grand Orient de France then "Edmund Burke", "Compass Star-Rose/Rosa-Stella Ventorum", "Der Ring");
- Bill Gates (US business magnate and investor, "Compass Star-Rose/Rosa-Stella Ventorum").
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#5355512 at 2019-02-24 04:41:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6845: Listen Carefully Edition
Clinton Emails Reveal Direct US Sabotage of Venezuela
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton led a team committed to delegitimising the politics of the late Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution.
Hillary Clinton with former Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez (EFE).
While Hillary Clinton publicly welcomed improved relations with Venezuela as secretary of state, she privately ridiculed the country and continued to support destabilisation efforts, revealed her emails leaked by WikiLeaks.
In 2010, Clinton asked Arturo Valenzuela, then assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs, how "to rein in Chavez." Valenzuela responded that, "We need to carefully consider the consequences of publicly confronting him but ought to look at opportunities for others in the region to help."
His answer was in line with the U.S. embassy strategy in 2006, also revealed in WikiLeaks intelligence cables: "Creative U.S. outreach to Chavez' regional partners will drive a wedge between him and them," said the confidential cable from the embassy. "By refusing to take each of Chavez's outbursts seriously, we frustrate him even more, paving the way for additional Bolivarian miscalculations. We also allow room for other international actors to respond."
Spain was among the countries willing to help the U.S. in its subversive foreign relations strategy. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright passed on a message from the administration of conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in 2012 expressing intentions "to re-orient Spanish foreign policy so that it can work with the U.S. in Latin America, especially on Venezuela and Cuba ... As a transition in Cuba and something significant in Venezuela (and possibly the Andes) loom, a stronger working relationship between the U.S. and Spain could be very helpful."
When keeping an eye on regional meetings, Clinton was especially concerned with Venezuela. Responding to a United Nations statement against the coup in Honduras in 2009-that she supported-Clinton shifted the attention to Venezuela: "Ok-but have they ever condemned Venezuela for denying press freedom?" she wrote to Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan.
He responded "I highly doubt it. And that is just the tip of the iceberg," to which Clinton wrote, "Ah, the proverbial iceberg."
Clinton was cautious not to respond to all of Hugo Chavez's "antics," but her staff insisted that Venezuelan politics were a threat to U.S. interests.
The US Role in the Failed Attempt to Overthrow Hugo Chavez
https://friendsofsyria.wordpress.com/2019/02/24/clinton-emails-reveal-direct-us-sabotage-of-venezuela/
#5139090 at 2019-02-12 13:49:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6564: She's Not Sick, Racist Frog Edition
MADRID/BARCELONA-Twelve Catalan politicians go on trial on Tuesday for their role in Catalonia's failed 2017 independence bid, putting the spotlight back on Spain's biggest political crisis in decades which could make it flare once again.
To the dismay of much of the rest of Spain, Catalonia defied a judicial ban by carrying out a referendum and subsequently unilaterally declaring independence in October 2017.
There was shock at home and abroad when police used batons and rubber bullets on protesters on the day of the vote. Some of the Catalan separatist leaders were later arrested or fled the country.
The start on Tuesday of the trial will refocus attention on the region's push for secession which so rattles Spain's political and cultural identity.
The trial will decide if Catalan nationalist leaders stay in jail. The public prosecutor is seeking prison terms of up to 25 years on charges of rebellion and misuse of public funds. At stake are Spain's stability, the future of Catalonia's independence movement as well as the region's and the central government's image abroad.
"It's the most important trial we have had in democracy", Supreme Court president Carlos Lesmes told reporters on Feb. 1, referring to the return to democracy in Spain after dictator Francisco Franco's death in 1975.
Raul Romeva, one of nine defendants jailed without bail since late 2017 facing the charge of rebellion, has made clear his view that it should end only with an acquittal.
"A (prison) sentence would weigh forever on history and on Spain's future," Romeva told Reuters in an interview conducted by email from jail.
At the time of his arrest, Romeva was foreign minister in Catalonia's regional government and a member of the European Parliament.
Fellow defendants include veteran Catalan politicians Oriol Junqueras and Carme Forcadell. Notably absent from the list is former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, who is in self-imposed exile in Belgium and thus cannot be tried in Spain.
The dozen's fate has been a rallying cry for separatists ever since 2017, said Federico Santi, analyst at political risk consultancy Eurasia, adding that he expected, like other observers, that the trial will re-ignite tensions.
Pro-Catalan independence protests had quieted down over the past months but separatist groups have called a series of protests in Catalonia and in Madrid to coincide with the trial.
Their supporters say they are political prisoners, while Madrid accuses them of breaking the law.
Among the many witnesses will be Mariano Rajoy, who was Spanish prime minister at the time of the independence vote and its aftermath.
RIFT
Lluis Orriols, a political science professor at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, thinks the trial will reinvigorate the separatist debate ahead of end-May local and regional elections.
"The Catalan question is activating a nationalistic and identitarian confrontation not only in Catalonia but also in all of Spain," Orriols said.
The trial starts as the Socialist government, which controls less than a quarter of seats in parliament, faces a key vote on the 2019 budget on Wednesday. A failure to approve the budget proposal could prompt a snap parliamentary election this year.
Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez relies on smaller parties, and in particular Catalan nationalists, to get the budget adopted. These have said they would block the bill, citing their dissatisfaction with Sanchez's policy towards the region, despite his efforts for dialogue..
On the other hand, Spain's right-wing parties accuse Sanchez of being too soft with Catalan separatists. On Sunday, thousands gathered in Madrid to protest Sanchez' Catalan policies.
In Catalonia, support for the twelve is not unanimous. The population is largely split in two between those who favor remaining part of Spain and those wanting to secede.
After imposing direct rule on Catalonia in October 2017, Madrid called fresh regional elections that December in a bid to curb the independence movement. But the move backfired and the secessionists retained a slim majority in the Catalan assembly.
The last time a trial for rebellion was held in Spain was in 1982 after a failed military coup attempt. Its leader, found guilty of rebellion by a military court, was sentenced to 30 years of prison.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/catalan-separatist-leaders-go-on-trial-over-independence-bid_2797986.html
#5126692 at 2019-02-11 21:58:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6548: Melania Monday Edition
Spain: Tens of thousands join right-wing rally in Madrid, demand socialist PM to resign
Some 45,000 people joined a right-wing rally in Spain's capital Sunday to demand that Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez step down for his handling of the Catalonia region's secession crisis.
Many in the crowd assembled in Madrid's Plaza de Colon waved the national flag and chanted slogans in support of Spain's security forces along with calling for the Socialist prime minister's resignation.
The conservative opposition Popular Party and the center-right Citizens party organised the rally, which the upstart far-right Vox party and other far-right parties backed.
"The time of Sanchez's government is over", Popular Party president Pablo Casado said. He asked voters to punish Sanchez's Socialists in the European, local and regional elections in May.
The political tensions come as a highly sensitive trial at Spain's Supreme Court starts Tuesday for 12 Catalan separatists who face charges, including rebellion, for their roles in a failed secession attempt in 2017.
Sanchez inherited the Catalan conflict from former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, the then-leader of the Popular Party. Rajoy proved incapable of stopping support for secession from swelling in Catalonia to roughly half of the northeastern region's voters.
Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6688321/Madrid-protests-against-Spanish-governments-plans-call-talks-Catalan-separatists.html
https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/02/spain-tens-of-thousands-join-right-wing-rally-in-madrid-demand-socialist-pm-resign/
#5109216 at 2019-02-10 20:22:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6525: Blockade End Edition
Thousands join right-wing rally in Madrid, demand PM resign
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Tens of thousands of people joined a right-wing rally in Spain's capital Sunday to demand that Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez step down for his handling of the Catalonia region's secession crisis.
Many in the crowd assembled in Madrid's Plaza de Colon waved the national flag and chanted slogans in support of Spain's security forces along with calling for the Socialist prime minister's resignation.
The conservative opposition Popular Party and the center-right Citizens party organized the rally, which the upstart far-right Vox party and other far-right parties backed.
"The time of Sanchez's government is over," Popular Party president Pablo Casado said. He asked voters to punish Sanchez's Socialists in the European, local and regional elections in May.
The political tensions come as a highly sensitive trial at Spain's Supreme Court starts Tuesday for 12 Catalan separatists who face charges, including rebellion, for their roles in a failed secession attempt in 2017.
Sanchez inherited the Catalan conflict from former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, the then-leader of the Popular Party. Rajoy proved incapable of stopping support for secession from swelling in Catalonia to roughly half of the northeastern region's voters.
Speaking at a Socialist party event in northern Spain, Sanchez reminded his political opponents that when he was an opposition leader, he stood by Rajoy on the situation in Catalonia even after separatist regional officials staged an Oct. 2017 independence referendum in defiance of Spanish courts..
"And what I am doing now as prime minister, always respecting the constitution, is to solve a national crisis to which the Popular Party has contributed," Sanchez said.
"The unity of Spain means uniting Spaniards and not confronting them as the right wing is doing in Plaza de Colon today," he said.
Sanchez came to power in June promising to thaw tensions between central authorities in Madrid and the Catalan leaders in Barcelona. He met twice with Catalan chief Quim Torra. Members of the central and regional governments had several more encounters.
Sanchez had said he would be willing to help Catalan lawmakers agree to a new Charter Law, which determines the amount of self-rule the region enjoys. But Sanchez's government broke off negotiations on Friday, when Vice President Carmen Calvo said the separatists wouldn't budge from their demand for an independence referendum.
Sanchez is trying to cobble together support to pass a national budget. His minority government will need votes from the Catalan separatists and other parties to pass it.
Even though Sanchez has said he wants to see out the legislative term through 2020, a failure to win a budget vote will crank up the pressure on him to call for an early election.
https://www.heraldcourier.com/news/thousands-join-right-wing-rally-in-madrid-demand-pm-resign/article_2c06306e-fdd5-5a3f-b797-b35990555521.html
#2872914 at 2018-09-04 15:59:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3632: Hang In There Kavanaugh Edition
Catalonia govt to relaunch campaign to split from Spain
Catalan leader Quim Torra was preparing on Tuesday to relaunch the region's campaign to split from Spain, rebuffing an offer from Madrid for a referendum on greater autonomy that would fall well short of independence, Reuters reported. Torra, who is due to set out his separatist roadmap at a lecture entitled "Our Moment" on Tuesday evening, was sworn in as regional head in May, replacing Carles Puigdemont who fled to Brussels last year after the central government in Madrid removed him from office. Spain's new socialist prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, has taken a softer line towards Catalonia since taking over from Mariano Rajoy, a conservative, in June. However, Torra has shown no sign of shelving his demand for a vote on full independence. "I will take it to the end," Torra said in a television interview on Monday. The lecture comes one week ahead of the Catalan national day, the 'Diada,' which traditionally draws hundreds of thousands of separatists onto the streets.
https://www.rt.com/newsline/437604-catalonia-relaunch-split-spain/
#1833866 at 2018-06-20 20:35:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2311 MSM Going Nuts edition
>>1833803
Spanish Students Given 24 Hours To Leave Dorms To Make Room For Aquarius Migrants
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-20/spanish-students-given-24-hours-leave-dorms-will-house-aquarius-migrants
"The Spanish government's decision to accept a boat carrying more than 600 migrants, a boat that was refused permission to dock by both Italy and Malta, has backfired on a group of students in the city of Alicante, who have been asked to leave their dorms within 24 hours to make room for the refugees. According to RT, Pedro Sanchez, Spain's newly appointed socialist prime minister who replaced Mariano Rajoy following a no-confidence vote earlier this month, agreed to shelter the passengers of the Aquarius, a group of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa who were rescued from rickety vessels in the Mediterranean by the ship."
#1612520 at 2018-06-02 02:27:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2028: "Re_read drops - you have more than you know" Edition
EU in flux as US alliance creaks, populists rise in Italy
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Certainties Europe has relied on for decades seem to be crumbling: that the U.S. is a reliable trade partner, and that the founding members of the EU all remain committed to the bloc.
On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on European steel and aluminum, dismissing Europe's pleas, and an anti-EU populist government took office in Italy. Added to Britain's expected departure next year from the European Union, the milestones show a region entering a new state of flux, with potential implications for the prosperity of its people and global relations.
"Germany and France should very quickly show joint political leadership now," said Daniela Schwarzer, director of the German Council on Foreign Relations.
That role would belong in large part to Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron when it comes to strengthening Europe's currency union. Collectively, the EU could seek to ease worries about trade by strengthening commercial ties with other partners like Japan, China and countries in South America.
But the trade relationship with the U.S. is the biggest in the world, and will be hard to make up for, if the U.S. and EU escalate their spat by imposing counter-tariffs on each other. U.S. trade helped Europe recover from the devastation of World War II and enriched U.S. companies that sold consumer goods to the continent. A souring in relations could also have implications for cooperation in other spheres, like security.
"The situation is worrying, it could escalate," said the EU's trade chief, Cecilia Malmstrom, adding that the tariffs could hurt global economic growth. "The United States is playing a dangerous game."
The EU officials were far more cautious in their reaction to the political situation in Italy, for fear of further provoking supporters of the new government led by the anti-establishment 5 Star Movement and the anti-immigration the League. But they were likely not less worried, having seen European financial markets plunge this week on Italy's political chaos.
Law professor and political neophyte Giuseppe Conte was sworn in Friday as the head of Italy's populist government. The two parties plan tax cuts and more spending, including a basic income for the poor, that would likely clash with EU limits on deficits. An initial failure to agree with President Sergio Mattarella on a government led to a sharp sell-off in Italian markets Monday and Tuesday.
Italy, one of the original signers of the 1957 Treaty of Rome that created a common market and paved the way for today's European Union, has the second heaviest debt load in Europe after Greece, at 132 percent of annual economic output, and the market tremors underlined the currency union's ongoing vulnerability after a 2010-2012 debt crisis.
The parties' rise to power in Italy will be a blow to supporters of the EU, as it could embolden anti-EU parties, which have won elections in some countries in Eastern Europe, like Hungary and Poland. And it comes just as the EU enters a key six months of negotiations with Britain on the country's exit from the bloc.
To stir things up a bit more, Spain's government lost a no-confidence vote Friday and conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was replaced by socialist Pedro Sanchez.
The developments leave other EU leaders looking for a strategy ahead of a summit on June 28-29. The meeting was originally supposed to agree on how to strengthen the EU and the euro based on proposals from Macron, whose election victory in May 2017 over nationalist euroskeptic opponent Marine Le Pen gave a temporary sense that the tide of populist discontent had been turned back.
Hopes for an agreement at the summit have narrowed to a few issues, such as upgrading the eurozone's bailout fund for troubled countries. Others have been rejected or kicked into the long weeds because countries like Germany fear of sharing financial risk with shakier members. The European Commission has proposed a 30 billion euro fund to help troubled eurozone countries with investment spending over a seven-year period.
And the disputes with the U.S. go far beyond trade. Europeans disagree with Trumps' decision to abandon a deal with Iran to limit its nuclear program and to withdraw from a global climate change pact. The U.S. president has also criticized European countries, particularly Germany, for not fulfilling their commitment to spend at least 2 percent of GDP on defense.
Not everything is falling apart. Europe's economy is growing at a healthy pace. Italy's populists might not carry through on all their spending plans to avoid a crisis in financial markets. How far the trade conflict will escalate isn't clear yet either.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/1/eu-in-flux-as-us-alliance-creaks-populists-rise-in/
#1608387 at 2018-06-01 18:35:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2023: Historical Meetings With North Korea Edition
>>1608241
Hm. WH won Italy.
Also in Spain. Pedro Sanchez is the new press
https:// www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2018/06/spain-prime-minister-Mariano-Rajoy-forced-step-180601093838021.html
http:// www.greensboro.com/ap/us_world/socialist-opposition-leader-to-take-over-spain-s-new-govt/image_4539401d-ca38-538b-88b9-9f8ebfcb7cca.html
#1607085 at 2018-06-01 15:24:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2021: Timber & Lumber in U.S. Edition
Rajoy out: Spain's government collapses after no confidence vote
Socialist Pedro Sanchez has become prime minister of the EU's 5th biggest economy
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spain-government-collapse-no-confidence-vote-Mariano-Rajoy-a8378586.html
#1606191 at 2018-06-01 11:58:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2020 The 2020 Will Be Glorious Edition
Spain's Rajoy Ousted by Lawmakers
Prime minister, who enacted painful economic reforms, is country's first leader to be unseated in a vote of confidence
MADRID-Spanish lawmakers voted to oust Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Friday, ushering in a center-left government whose new leader pledged to enact a moderate, pro-European agenda unlikely to knock Spain's robust economic recovery off course.
Spain's parliament voted 180 to 169, with one abstention, to remove Mr. Rajoy, cutting short the second term of one of Europe's longest-serving leaders currently in power. The center-left Socialist Party had called the no-confidence vote last week and proposed its leader to replace Mr. Rajoy.
Socialist Party leader Pedro Sánchez, who becomes prime minister immediately, told lawmakers that his policy goals include bolstering social policies to address problems such as unemployment and poverty levels, both of which remain high despite Spain's strong growth.
However, the new premier will lead a minority government that is likely to struggle to pass legislation and has already promised to call parliamentary elections ahead of the current 2020 deadline.
Events in Spain come just as a new government comes to power in Italy, now home to Western Europe's largest anti-establishment movement, after a three-month power vacuum.
The two high-profile political crises this week in southern Europe underscore the social and economic scars still borne by the region years after the eurozone's 2011-12 crisis, damage that is feeding political discontent and stirring hunger for change.
Mr. Rajoy had seen his support steadily erode since he became prime minister in 2011 and began to enact a series of painful economic reforms to help Spain recover from its deepest crisis in decades. He has shouldered much of the political blame for a recovery that has left millions of Spaniards behind. He is the first Spanish prime minister to be unseated in a vote of confidence.
"It has been an honor to leave Spain better than I found it," Mr. Rajoy told lawmakers before the vote. "Hopefully, my replacement will be able to say the same."
Mr. Sánchez seized on a corruption ruling last week that found Mr. Rajoy's center-right Popular Party financially benefited from a graft scheme. The corruption scandal was the final blow for a premier who managed to win re-election in 2016 but emerged from the vote with a weak minority government.
….. (remainder omitted)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lawmakers-oust-spanish-leader-who-enacted-painful-economic-reforms-1527845793
Paywalled (maybe) but looks like the proverbial straw here was the public corruption.
#1605996 at 2018-06-01 10:34:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2020 The 2020 Will Be Glorious Edition
https:// www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spain-government-collapse-no-confidence-vote-Mariano-Rajoy-a8378586.html
#1605987 at 2018-06-01 10:30:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2020 The 2020 Will Be Glorious Edition
Spain's prime minister has been ousted in a vote of no confidence following a corruption scandal.
Mariano Rajoy admitted defeat ahead of the vote on Friday morning, after six-and-a-half years in the top job.
He is the first Spanish prime minister to lose such a vote since Spain transitioned to democracy in 1977.
Sky news
#1599737 at 2018-05-31 20:14:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2012: The Great Awakening
'Your time is up. Resign!' Spain's PM Rajoy to be ousted over corruption scandal
Five votes from the minor Basque Nationalist Party are expected to swing a tightly-balanced no-confidence motion against Spain's center-right prime minister Mariano Rajoy, whose party has been caught up in a kickback scandal.
"Resign, Mr Rajoy. Your time is up," Pedro Sanchez, the leader of the opposition socialists PSOE, which initiated the motion, told Spain's parliament during a specially-scheduled debate on Thursday morning, before calling for "democratic renewal".
As Rajoy's People's Party (PP) holds only 134 out of 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies, the lower chamber of the Spanish parliament, the prime minister needs the support of others to survive Friday's vote, which requires a simple majority.
With the socialists, Catalan parties and upstart leftists Podemos on one side, and liberal Ciudadanos abstaining, the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) is left as the kingmaker with its handful of representatives.
Both factions have attempted to curry favor with it. Rajoy promised an increase in investment in the north-eastern region in last week's budget, which the PNV helped to get over the line. Sanchez reassured the Basque nationalists by promising to stick to those spending commitments for the next year.
Multiple media reports circulated in the morning, suggesting that PNV had gone over to the no-confidence side, paving the way for a new socialist-led coalition. The party itself confirmed the decision on Thursday afternoon, leaving Rajoy to fall on his sword and resign himself, or face what looks like an inevitable defeat.
Meanwhile, a bitter debate ranged in the chamber, in which an unapologetic Rajoy, who has led the country since 2011, accused his ousters of "playing Mother Teresa" with corruption accusations in order to worm their way into power.
"Sanchez wants to reach the presidency, but not by winning elections like others," said Rajoy, noting that PSOE captured a mere 85 seats at the last election in 2016. "Everything loses importance when it comes to your ambition. This is an unhelpful attempt to take advantage of any shortcut to reach power."
Rajoy also defended his party over the corruption indictment that last week saw dozens of former PP officials and backers jailed for money laundering and fraud, for operating a kickbacks-for-contracts scheme between 1999 and 2006. PP itself was fined ?240,000 for benefitting from the racket.
The 63-year-old prime minister said that the behavior of individuals was not reflective of the party as a whole, and pointed out numerous scandals in which opposition socialists have recently been embroiled.
While the so-called Gurtel court case served as a pretext for the latest proceedings, PP has been vulnerable to toppling ever since it stitched together a weak coalition following a political deadlock two years ago.
The socialists' Pedro Sanchez could become Spain's next prime minister. / Reuters
Even if the current motion were to somehow fail, Ciudadanos say they will launch no-confidence proceedings of its own, with the aim of calling a fresh election for autumn, which could produce a more decisive result, and another swing away from the teetering centrist parties.
https://www.rt.com/news/428378-Rajoy-basque-resignation-vote/
#1315356 at 2018-05-06 04:42:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1649: Edition
Puigdemont to Be Once Again Nominated as Candidate for Catalan Presidency
MADRID (Sputnik) - The Catalan pro-independence Together for Catalonia (JxCat) political party on Saturday proposed to once again nominate former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont as a candidate to head the regional government.
The news came from JxCat spokesman Eduard Pujol following a meeting of the party's members in Berlin. The candidacy is expected to be officially announced before May 14.
On Friday, Catalan lawmakers voted in favor of an amendment that would allow the regional president to be elected without his or her presence in the parliament, in a move that could return Puigdemont, who currently is in self-imposed exile, to power.
Portrait of former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont attached to the fence of the prison (Justizvollzugsanstalt, JVA) of Neumuenster, northern Germany, where Puigdemont ,former Catalan regional president, is detained
© AFP 2018 / AXEL HEIMKEN
German Court Releases Ex-Catalan Leader Puigdemont on Bail
In January, a Spanish court ruled that Puigdemont, who fled to Belgium in October to avoid sedition charges after last year's independence referendum, could only become the regional leader if he was physically present in the parliament and had a judge's permission to attend the swearing-in session.
However, in late February, Catalan pro-independence parties announced their plans to establish a parallel government in Brussels that would be headed by Puigdemont, the idea Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy described as "crazy."
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201805061064185287-puigdemont-again-nominated-catalan-presidency/
#789749 at 2018-03-25 19:05:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #980: Fait Accompli Edition
>>789586
This is a huge hit to Soros and his plan to destabilize Countries in Europe, I hope that The Spanish wake up soon., Mariano Rajoy (Neo-con, Pablo Iglesias (Comminust) and Albert Rivera (Neo-con and the Pawn of the Bilderberg) are a problem..
>http:// www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-catalonia-carles-puigdemont-arrest-20180325-story,amp.html
8chan/8kun QResearch GERMANY Posts (1)
#7227108 at 2019-07-28 10:17:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #28 | EU: von der Leyen is corrupt (McKinsey Scandal) Edition
Ur-Logen nach Gioele Magaldi. Ablenkung von den Logen die es wirklich gibt oder echte Hintergrundinformation?
Es gibt 36 dieser UrLogen. Diese Hochgrade aus der Freimaurerei sind international tätig. Es gibt für sie keine Grenzen. Diese UrLogen sind völlig unabhängig. Sie bestimmen ihre Ziele und Gesetzte selbst. In Einzelfällen kommt es hier
auch zur vollständigen Einweihung von neuen Mitgliedern (Staatschefs). Bündnisse der UrLogen
untereinander mit gleichen Zielen sind möglich. Bei den UrLogen gibt es zwei ideologisch entgegengesetzte
Fraktionen wobei jede noch einmal zwei Flügel hat (1. demokratisch, gemäßigt fortschrittlich bzw.
hyperfortschrittlich 2. Antidemokratisch, elitär bzw. neoaristokratisch).
Barack Obama (US-Präsident, "Maat", * Ur-Loge des Zbiegniew Brzezinski als Kompromiss zwischen konservativen und progressiven Ur-Maurern gegründet)
Wladimir Putin (Russischer Präsident, "Golden Eurasia")
Angela Merkel (Bundeskanzler "Golden Eurasia", "Valhalla", "Parsifal")
Christine Lagarde (Direktorin des IWF, "Three Eyes", "Pan-Europa")
George W. Bush (ehem. US Präsident, "Hathor Pentalpha")
Michael Leeden (US Journalist, "White Eagle", "Hathor Pentalpha")
Condoleezza Rice (US Politiker, "Three Eyes", "Hathor Pentalpha")
Madeleine Albright (US Politiker, "Three Eyes", "Leviathan")
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi (IS-Anführer, "Hathor Pentalpha")
Tony Blair (ehem. brit. Premierminister, "Edmund Burke", "Hathor Pentalpha")
David Cameron (ehem. brit. Premierminister, "Edmund Burke", "Geburah")
Mariano Rajoy (Premierminister von Spanien, "Pan-Europa", "Valhalla", "Parsifal")
Antonis Samaras (grich. Politiker, "Three Eyes")
Nicolas Sarkozy (ehem. franz. Präsident, "Edmund Burke", "Geburah", "Atlantis-Aletheia", "Pan-Europa",
"Hathor Pentalpha").
Manuel Valls (Premierminister Frankreich seit 2012, "Grand Orient de France", "Edmund Burke", "Compass
Star-Rose/Rosa-Stella Ventorum", "Der Ring")
Bill Gates (Microsoft, "Compass Star-Rose/Rosa-Stella Ventorum")
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#10201301 at 2020-08-06 17:48:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research NEDERLAND #4: Het oog van de storm!
Barack Obama (former US President, "Maat", *Ur-Lodge founded by Zbiegniew Brzezinski and expression of a compromise between conservatives and progressives Ur-masons).
Vladimir Putin (Russian Federation President, "Golden Eurasia").
Angela Merkel (German Chancelor since 2005, "Golden Eurasia", "Valhalla" , "Parsifal").
Christine Lagarde (FMI Director, "Three Eyes", "Pan-Europa").George W. Bush (US President from 2001 to 2009, "Hathor Pentalpha").
Condoleezza Rice (US Politician, "Three Eyes", "Hathor Pentalpha").
Madeleine Albright (US politician, "Three Eyes", "Leviathan").
Antonis Samaras (Greek Prime Minister since 2013, "Three Eyes").
Mark Rutte (Dutch prime minister, "Three Eyes", "Pan-Europa")
Mariano Rajoy (Prime Minister of Spain since 2011, "Pan-Europa", "Valhalla", "Parsifal").
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi (Leader of Isis and so-called Islamic Caliphate, "Hathor Pentalpha").
Michael Leeden (US journalist and political expert, "White Eagle", "Hathor Pentalpha").
Tony Blair (UK Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007, "Edmund Burke" , then "Hathor Pentalpha").
Jan Peter Balkenende (former Dutch prime minister, "Hathor Pentalpha").
David Cameron (UK Prime Minister since 2010, "Edmund Burke", "Geburah").
Nicolas Sarkozy (Politician, President of France from 2007 to 2012, "Edmund Burke", "Geburah", "Atlantis-Aletheia", "Pan-Europa", "Hathor Pentalpha").
Manuel Valls (French Prime Minister since 2012, first Grand Orient de France then "Edmund Burke", "Compass Star-Rose/Rosa-Stella Ventorum" , "Der Ring").
Bill Gates (US business magnate and investor, "Compass Star-Rose/Rosa-Stella Ventorum").
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