As I write these lines tonight for you shortly before 11 p.m., the latest reports say that the Constitutional Court has approved an urgent injuction requested by the opposition Popular Party and Vox to prohibit a vote in the Spanish Senate this Thursday on two amendments related to the election of the members of the Constitutional Court itself. Judges had been in session almost all day and the PSOE and Podemos had unsuccessfully tried to recuse two of the judges voting today because their mandates had expired. They ruled they could vote.
Top Spanish court orders Senate to stop vote after appeal from right-wing opposition parties
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Top Spanish court orders Senate to stop vote after appeal from right-wing opposition parties
🔊Judges' late-night decision comes after a week of intense political confrontation at the highest level of Spanish politics, with MPs warning of constitutional crisis.
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