Anticaps say ‘hasta luego’ to Podemos in Andalucía
After months of tension between the leadership of Podemos’ regional Andalucía affiliate and the party’s national leadership in Madrid, the two announced…
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Endesa set to build largest solar operation in Andalucía
The green power subsidiary of Spanish energy giant Endesa has been granted a license to build a new photovoltaic solar power plant…
Protest decries ongoing healthcare decline in Andalucía
Some 20,000 protesters marched through Sevilla on Sunday, converging on the Plaza de España to rally against inaction in resolving bottlenecks and…
Andalucian Socialist first female Guardia Civil director
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has named an Andalucian Socialist and longtime government administrator, María Gámez, to become the first woman ever to…
Andalucía Socialist ex-presidents convicted in ERE case
A court in southern Spain has found a group of former senior leaders of members of the Andalucía affiliate of Spain’s Socialist…
Podemos’ poor Andalucía showing widens rifts in party
While the poor showing of the governing Socialist party (PSOE) was a focus of Spanish and international news coverage of Sunday’s regional…
PSOE dealt blow in shock Andalucía election results
Low voter turnout overall in Spain’s southernmost region of Andalucía combined with a favorable response to anti-immigrant and nationalist campaign rhetoric in…
PSOE set to win vote, govern in coalition in Andalucía
With less than one week to go before crucial 2nd December elections in Spain’s southernmost region of Andalucía, voter preference polls are…
PACMA to defend animal rights in Andalucía elections
Spain’s PACMA animal-rights party has announced its slate of candidates for 2nd December regional elections in Andalucía, saying the party is campaigning…
Andalucía gender-equality law debuts amid criticism
A long-awaited regional gender-equality law took effect in Andalucía on Tuesday amid criticism that it fails to resolve many issues surrounding inequality…
Early Andalucia balloting to set stage for 2019 elections
Andalucian President Susana Díaz announced Monday that Spain’s southernmost region will hold early elections the first week of December, moving forward the…
Andalucia takes legal action to stop Doñana gas drilling
The regional government of Andalucia said Tuesday said it is filing legal action and requesting a court injunction to halt natural gas…
Andalucia’s new LGBTI law set for unanimous approval
► Law to protect LGBTI families from discrimination, provides for sanctions ► In its last legislative session of 2017, Andalucia’s regional Parliament…
Andalucía tops local gov’t spending on social services
► Study ranks 25 best and 41 worst municipalities on social-services spending ► A newly released study on the provision of social…
Andalucia steps up efforts to identify Civil War victims
• 12,000 executed by firing squads believed buried in Sevilla, Cordoba & Huelva • Forensics teams to unearth mass graves across 17…
‘Anticaps’ challenge Podemos in Catalonia, Andalucia
• Podemos ‘Anticapitalistas’ support for Catalan plebiscite breaks with party line • In Andalucia, ‘Anticaps’ push for statutes, more autonomy from national…
Susana Díaz faces trouble in Andalucia following defeat
• Elections showed more anti-Díaz feeling within regional party than anticipated • Tenuous regional gov’t pact with Ciudadanos complicated by election results…
Sánchez sees path to PSOE victory through Andalucia
• Socialist leadership candidate hopes to convert Patxi López voters in Andalucia • Sánchez campaign says 10 pct increase in regional vote…
Andalucia law tries again to stem foreclosures, evictions
• Previous law expropriating bank-owned properties ruled ‘unconstitutional’ • Second attempt gives gov’t right to buy foreclosed homes to avoid evictions The…
Ciudadanos resignation weakens PSOE-Andalucia gov’t
• PSOE-Ciudadanos parliamentary alliance just one vote short of losing majority • Potential trouble for Susana Díaz, in midst of bid for…
Greenpeace blockades Fenosa gas plant in Andalucía
• Activists’ early-morning direct action blockades gas production, storage plant • Protesters say plant threatens Doñana wetlands, UNESCO World Heritage Site Some…
Andalucian Socialist leader Díaz makes her move
• Andalucian president says could serve as PSOE Gen Secretary simultaneously • Brussels trip seen as part of effort to improve image…
Andalucian NGOs shine light on ‘Invisible Poverty’
• NGO network raises awareness of multiple forms of poverty in Andalucia • A network of non-governmental organisations in collaboration with print…
Animal-rights activists call April 18 protest in Sevilla over ‘multi-million’ Andalucía bullfighting subsidies
• PACMA calls for ‘end to torture’ and festivals ‘without cruelty’ toward bulls • Spain’s Partido Animalista (PACMA) has called a demonstration…
Andalucia legislature passes “appropriate sanctions” resolution against LGBT-phobic crimes
• Nearly 40% of LGBT-phobic crimes nationwide occur in southern region • Resolution paves wave for to sanctions similar to those approved…
Gov’t extends freeze on mortgages, loans, utilities cutoff
The coalition government’s Consejo de Ministros executive cabinet on Tuesday voted to extend through September 30th the moratorium on payment of mortgages…
Activists oppose hotel planned for Almeria natural park
The Partido Popular-led right-wing regional government of Andalucía is on the verge of approving construction of a four-star hotel with 33 rooms,…
Oxfam: Pandemic could push 700,000 more into poverty
Tenuous gains made in the fight against poverty over the last four years as Spain began easing out of its last economic…
Post-lockdown ‘new normalcy’ places bullfights on hold
As Spain prepares to return to a “new normality” when the country’s COVID-19 lockdown is lifted later this month, continued restrictions on…
Parties jockey for position over economic reconstruction
The push from Spain’s government for all-party consensus on how to rebuild the national economy following the coronavirus crisis grinds slowly on,…
Numbers chaos over testing, non-hospital deaths count
Spain’s Health Ministry reported a slight decrease in the number of deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, while noting a sharp increase of…