Parties jockey to put together post-election coalition
• Socialists say they won’t support or abstain from voting against Rajoy • Conservative PP best placed to assemble coalition to form…
• Socialists say they won’t support or abstain from voting against Rajoy • Conservative PP best placed to assemble coalition to form…
• InfoCircos ~ InfoCircuses • InfoCircos, literally “Info Circuses,” is a coalition of organizations working in Spain to promote the protection of…
• High Court judge says Catalan ex-President willfully disobeyed Supreme Court • Recommends, Mas and two others face trial over Nov 2014…
• Greenpeace España selects 35-year-old psychologist, activist as new director • Daniel Fernández stresses need to link environment with social justice issues…
• Greenpeace España ~ Greenpeace Spain • Greenpeace España is the Spanish section of international non-governmental environmental organization Greenpeace, which since its…
• Internal Podemos factions try to lay blame for loss of 1.2 million votes • Theories range from Brexit scare to grave…
• Oxfam Intermón to fund local NGOs working with migrants, women & children • Prevention of gender violence, counseling for domestic abuse…
• Partido Animalista nets 284.848 votes for 1.19% of total Congressional vote • Party awarded no seats in Congress due to Electoral…
• Conservative PP wins 33 percent of vote and additional 14 seats in Congress • Unidos Podemos loses 1.2 million votes, placing…
• Socialists resist ‘sorpasso’ challenge from Podemos, lose 5 seats in Congress • PSOE leader blames Iglesias for second election, rebound by…
• Podemos, Izquierda Unida coalition falls far short of ‘sorpasso’ strategic goal • Podemos’ Pablo Iglesias says coalition partners to launch analysis…
• PP & Unidos Podemos tactics shift campaign debate to political extremes • Eroded centrist vote forebodes tough negotiations, possible third election…
• 65 Syrian refugees, one Iraqi arrived to Madrid from Turkish, Greek camps • Spain has now resettled 200 refugees, part of…
• Greenpeace activists delivered 8 million signatures calling for Arctic protection • North-Atlantic marine protection meeting in Tenerife to decide sanctuary issue…
• PACMA hopes to build on record 2015 vote and win first seats in Congress • Party fielding candidates for Congress &…
• Neither Rajoy nor Iglesias would have Socialists’ support to lead government • ‘Pablo Iglesias is not going to be President’, Sánchez…
• Marchers in dozens of cities call on Spain’s gov’t to accept more refugees • NGOs present 11 urgent points to speed…
• Polls published Sunday all see Partido Popular slipping, but still in first place • Unidos Podemos coalition seen eclipsing Socialists, moving…
• Commission targets 8 individuals, 5 groups associated with Franco regime • Falange, JONS and military to lose ‘Medal of Honour’, ‘Favourite…
• Opposition lawmakers seek info on 7.2 million euros paid to Podemos founders • Podemos denies charges, says part of orchestrated election…
• Legislation proposed jointly by all parties, unanimously approved in 81-0 vote • InfoCircos organisation hails vote as victory for defenders of…
• NGO working with disabled women found 247 cases of gender violence in 2015 • Women with disabilities find it difficult to…
• SOS Refugiados rallies, demos planned for 20th June World Refugee Day • Organizers seek to focus election campaigns on plight of…
• KidsRights Index 2016 recognizes Spain’s protection of children’s rights • Annual index charts 163 countries on right to life, health, education…
• Mayor Colau recently scrapped a costly renovation of the city’s Dolphinarium • Activists want to see dolphins in sanctuary facility prior…
• Fiscalía opens investigation into alleged homophobic, anti-feminist comments • Valencia Archbishop said one of most conservative of Spain’s Catholic prelates The…
• Pew Research report sees Spaniards more outward-looking than rest of Europe • Spaniards prefer rights, aid, diplomacy to military in resolving…
• WATCH FULL DEBATE IN SPANISH, BELOW … The morning after Spain’s four-way Presidential debate in Spain on Monday night — the…
• Nearly 9 in 10 homeless in Barcelona are men, 2/3 from other countries • One quarter of all individuals interviewed living…
• Catalan Socialists propose to reform Spain’s 2007 Historical Memory Law • Measure would pay 135,000 euros each to German camp victims…
• PP seen to place first again, while Podemos supplants PSOE in second place • Analysts cite generational demographics behind transformed political…