barbaryfigs is a mainly English language blog focusing on recent events in Catalonia and Spain, politics and the media. Waiting for the tide to turn.
Aug 6, 2018 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Rights violated by #SupremeCourt judge Pablo #LIarena over the past 9 months:
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💥 1. Cuixart and Sànchez should have been processed by ordinary courts in Barcelona as they are civilians, not politicians
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💥 2. Jailed MPs elected - Junqueras, Romeva, Rull, Turull and Sànchez - had political right to attend parliamentary sessions violated. In cases of Puigdemont, Sànchez and Turull a UNHRC decree requesting attendance at investiture for presidential candidates. All appeals rejected
Jul 29, 2018 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
#PabloCasado has been leader of the same old Partido Popular for barely a week. How long is he going to last?
🔵Academic Fraud
🔵The PP is incorrigible
🔵#Cifuentes and Casado
🔵Straight on the #Catalans’ case
barbaryfigs.com/2018/07/29/the…
Thanks to @eldiarioes it's known that:
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In 2008, Pablo Casado enrolled in a Harvard Master’s program, the grandly named “Driving Government Performance”. It's one of the 3 “American” qualifications Casado's most proud of, citing his “Harvards” at every opportunity
