US EditionCatalan allies on brink of withdrawing support for Spanish government
Junts per Catalunya cites unfulfilled promises on amnesty and Catalan language rights as reasons for ending support, risking Spain’s minority Socialist government’s budget and governance.
- On Monday, Carles Puigdemont announced at a Perpignan party meeting that Junts per Catalunya's leadership decided to withdraw support for Spain's minority left-wing government.
- Citing broken promises, Junts per Catalunya says the Socialist Party of Spain failed to devolve immigration enforcement and secure EU recognition of Catalan.
- An internal ratification vote is scheduled on Wednesday and Thursday, with Junts per Catalunya's seven MPs having provided decisive backing to Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister, in 2023.
- Repeated roll-overs of the 2023 spending plan heighten budget risk as the government has yet to submit the one for 2026, while Puigdemont warned Socialists "will be able to stay in power, but without any capacity to govern."
- Puigdemont, who led the 2017 secession bid, remains in Belgian exile as the amnesty law approved last year excludes him due to embezzlement charges, despite Junts' 2023 agreement with Sánchez seeking blanket amnesty.
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None of the parliamentary allies believes that Puigdemont's last ordague is leading to the end of a legislature that the PNV does glimpse "in agony"Puigdemont, after breaking with Sánchez: "We will not help this government or anyone else who does not help Catalonia" Carles Puigdemont's latest coup attempt did not move an eyebrow either to the government or to all its parliamentary allies.
Catalan allies on brink of withdrawing support for Spanish government
Leaders of Catalonia's regional pro-independence party Junts agreed on Monday to withdraw support from Spain's leftist government, further complicating its ability to pass the budget and other legislation.
Leaders of Catalonia's regional pro-independence party Junts agreed on Monday to withdraw support from Spain's leftist government, further complicating its ability to pass the budget and other legislation.
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