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May 29

Pardon in Spain???

During the past week in Spain, there has been heavy public political discussion surrounding the controversial idea of the Spanish government of Pedro Sánchez granting pardons to the jailed leaders of the failed Catalan independence bid as could be seen in this El País article. However, the Spain's section in our article on pardon clearly indicates that the right to issue pardons is a privilege of the monarch of Spain. Does Pedro Sánchez's government need the legal and explicit approval of the King to grant pardons and clemencies or not? Could the King legally refuse to approve the pardons which the government plans to grant? StellarHalo (talk) 08:47, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

According to the 1978 Constitution of Spain;

Article 62

It is incumbent upon the King:

i) to exercise the right to grant pardons in accordance with the law, which may not authorise general pardons... THE SPANISH CONSTITUTION (p. 20/52)

So in principle, he could decline, and hasn't held back in condemning the Catalan separatists. On the other hand, there is already a big question mark over the Spanish royals - see Is Spain’s Royal Family Finished? and Spain’s King Felipe VI struggles to repair tarnished image of royal family, so that might be a constraining factor. Alansplodge (talk) 13:41, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The monarchy is entrenched in the Spanish Constitution and so, I doubt the King is that worried about the current popularity of the royal family. StellarHalo (talk) 01:27, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The constitution can be amended (and has been amended twice). See Constitution_of_Spain#Part_X:_constitutional_amendment). The number of elected members of Congress and Senate willing to abolish the monarchy probably does correlate with how popular it is. Regarding your question, I guess it would be interesting to find out whether the monarch has ever refused to grant a pardon proposed by the government. (Some controversial pardons have been granted, such as those of Alfonso Armada, José Barrionuevo, or Alfredo Sáenz Abad. One pardon was annulled by the Supreme Court: that of the so-called 'kamikaze de Polinyà', a man who recklessly drove 5km in the wrong direction on the AP-7 and killed another person). ---Sluzzelin talk 02:17, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There have been 10652 pardons in Spain since 1996, all of them granted by the goverment, with the approval of the king as a mere formality and nothing else...It is unclear that the king could actually refuse to sign a goverment pardon (and would be very stupid on his part to try to do so, as he is supossed to be a neutral figure)85.58.45.118 (talk) 21:25, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Bulgarian Folklore"

Greetings,

A research paper "The Notion of the "Other" in Bulgaria: The Turks. A Historical Study" by author Vera Mutafchieva available on JSTOR from below given journal @ page 11 onwards JSTOR talks of a Book named "Bulgarian Folklore" Volume 1 2 3 Exactly which book she is referring to? Is it available online?

Anthropological Journal on European Cultures Vol. 4, No. 2, Ethnicity Nationalism Geopolitics in the Balkans (II) (1995), pp. 53-74 (22 pages)

Published by: Berghahn Books

Looking for refs for article Draft:Avret Esir Pazarları

Is it Bulgarian Folk Songs the same one, could not find English translation link in the article. Or it is there but I could not locate?

Thanks and warm regards

Bookku (talk) 12:07, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I thought maybe Michail Arnaudov's 1934 Essays on Bulgarian Folklore (Очерци по българския фолклор), but I only found it published in two volumes. ---Sluzzelin talk 01:00, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The References section has this item:

Bulgarsko narodno tvorchesto. 1963/1964. Vol 1 & 3. Sofia (Bulgarian Folk Traditions).

It seems plausible to me that this is the same publication as referred to before as "Bulgarian Folklore". The reference is deplorably incomplete. The title is the transliteration of the Bulgarian phrase Българско народно творчество, a better translation of which is "Bulgarian folk culture" or "Bulgarian folk art". (The Bulgarian Wikipedia has an article by that title, which is about the topic, not about the book.) I found this on Google Books, which as a bibliographic record is also laughably incomplete, so it is not possible to make out for sure if this is the same as the entry in the bibliography, but it is obviously the same publication we see here. --Lambiam 13:20, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The British Library has a catalogue entry for Българско народно творчество. Редакционна колегия ... М. Арнаудов, Ив. Бурин, Хр. Вакарелски ... П. Динеков, Д. Осинин, отговорен редактор.. - published Sofia, 1961-65, in 13 volumes. (I think the names are all editors?). I think this is the same as the Google Books one. Andrew Gray (talk) 17:06, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Sluzzelin, Lambiam, and Andrew Gray: Many thanks for all the support. Warm regards Bookku (talk) 05:41, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Account or books about Lassen eruption

Hello, looking for books or really detailed accounts of the last eruption at Lassen Peak in the 1910s. 69.209.14.47 (talk) 22:27, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. A few are listed as references in the Lassen Peak article: have a look at "The 1914–1917 Eruption of Lassen Peak", California Volcano Observatory, and Footage of Mt Lassen 1915, Shasta Historical Society, and A Sight "Fearfully Grand"—Eruptions of Lassen Peak, California, 1914 to 1917: Fact Sheet 2014–3119. National Park Service. See also The volcanic history of Lassen Peak : Lassen Volcanic National Park, California / by J.S. Diller, geologist, United States Geological Survey. 70.67.193.176 (talk) 14:24, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]