I should have tittled this post "Spain still goes on" but I didn't want to make the blog look like a review about the different EU countries since in my last post I talked about Italy...
but nevertheless, this post will go over the highlights of the current situation of Spain. Even if I am here, I like to be updated about what's going on in Spain.
Firstly, the elections coming up this Sunday. I have to say that I am very angry with the Spanish embassy in Stockholm for not having sent me the papers which would allow me to vote even if I am in Sweden. Unanswered calls, no reply to my e-mails,... anyway. I am quite aware that it is important to vote, specially at decisive moments like this. The one good thing that has happened during this electoral period has been the fact that the candidates from the two major parties (PP- conservatives, PSOE- socialists) have finally accepted to participate in a public debate. Actually there have been two. I was able to watch them the day after in youtube and in the websites of Spanish newspapers. (Please take a look at the video in the Youtube link) Aparent conclusions from these debates: the socialists have a stronger candidate and they are, according to polls, said to be the most voted party next Sunday.
My personal opinion according to what I've seen... I am not going to analyse the concrete arguments of either Zapatero (socialists) or Rajoy (conservatives) but what I am going to point out is the attitude of both them during the debate: it is certainly not acceptable to giggle about certain aspects or to just come back over and over to the same arguments whenever they do not belong to the discussion. The conservatives will still be unable to reach the government as long as they keep with this candidate and with their political untolerant attitude...
The best thing about these debates on TV has been that they have proved that Spanish people are interested politics (still!): over 12million people watched the debates. I must admit I feel proud about this, we DO care about what politicians do! :)
More things... well, what actually pushed me to write this post was the finding of this extract from my favourite radio programme, "La Ventana", presented by Gemma Nierga. The interview is about an investigation called "In the mind of the torturing" which has ended as a documentary/book. Baltasar Garzón, a well-knowned Spanish judge responsible for trials about terrorism and international genocide (specially about the Argentinian dictartorship), and Vicente Romero have condutec it. In this link you will get to the interview... It's really shocking to think about their inner feelings during this investigations as they dealed both with those who were torturing and those who were tortured...
The question which has arised to me after hearing about the investigation process is: up to where should the legitimacy of foreign countries and what's more international organisms to take to trial those who are acused of having commited crimes in their home States?
The case that I am concretely thinking about is the jugding of the Argentinian militars by Spanish courts... the trial for these crimes started earlier in Spain than in Argentina due to the inmunity laws that were aproved after the dictatorship...
but nevertheless, this post will go over the highlights of the current situation of Spain. Even if I am here, I like to be updated about what's going on in Spain.
Firstly, the elections coming up this Sunday. I have to say that I am very angry with the Spanish embassy in Stockholm for not having sent me the papers which would allow me to vote even if I am in Sweden. Unanswered calls, no reply to my e-mails,... anyway. I am quite aware that it is important to vote, specially at decisive moments like this. The one good thing that has happened during this electoral period has been the fact that the candidates from the two major parties (PP- conservatives, PSOE- socialists) have finally accepted to participate in a public debate. Actually there have been two. I was able to watch them the day after in youtube and in the websites of Spanish newspapers. (Please take a look at the video in the Youtube link) Aparent conclusions from these debates: the socialists have a stronger candidate and they are, according to polls, said to be the most voted party next Sunday.
My personal opinion according to what I've seen... I am not going to analyse the concrete arguments of either Zapatero (socialists) or Rajoy (conservatives) but what I am going to point out is the attitude of both them during the debate: it is certainly not acceptable to giggle about certain aspects or to just come back over and over to the same arguments whenever they do not belong to the discussion. The conservatives will still be unable to reach the government as long as they keep with this candidate and with their political untolerant attitude...
The best thing about these debates on TV has been that they have proved that Spanish people are interested politics (still!): over 12million people watched the debates. I must admit I feel proud about this, we DO care about what politicians do! :)
More things... well, what actually pushed me to write this post was the finding of this extract from my favourite radio programme, "La Ventana", presented by Gemma Nierga. The interview is about an investigation called "In the mind of the torturing" which has ended as a documentary/book. Baltasar Garzón, a well-knowned Spanish judge responsible for trials about terrorism and international genocide (specially about the Argentinian dictartorship), and Vicente Romero have condutec it. In this link you will get to the interview... It's really shocking to think about their inner feelings during this investigations as they dealed both with those who were torturing and those who were tortured...
The question which has arised to me after hearing about the investigation process is: up to where should the legitimacy of foreign countries and what's more international organisms to take to trial those who are acused of having commited crimes in their home States?
The case that I am concretely thinking about is the jugding of the Argentinian militars by Spanish courts... the trial for these crimes started earlier in Spain than in Argentina due to the inmunity laws that were aproved after the dictatorship...
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