PP, VOX refuse to support gender-violence measures
Spain’s Congress ratified emergency legislation on Wednesday over the protests of the conservative Partido Popular and ultra-right VOX parties that provides special…
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Ministry moves to quell VOX support within military
The Ministry of Defence has sacked the commander of a military base in Logroño in La Rioja province after the base hosted…
Twitter suspends VOX account for ‘incitement to hatred’
Spain’s ultra-right VOX party has had its official account on Twitter suspended by the social-media platform after claiming falsely in a Tweet…
Gov’t vows court challenge to VOX ‘parental PIN’ plan
Spain’s government has vowed to challenge the regional government of Murcia in court if it proceeds with a plan that allows parents…
Grenade attack on migrant-youth centre reviled by VOX
A migrant-youth shelter in Madrid’s Hortaleza neighbourhood that was reviled by Spain’s ultra-right VOX party in a campaign video in the run-up…
#VIDEO Activist rebukes VOX leader on gender violence
In past years on the occasion of the UN-designated International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Madrid’s 57-member municipal council…
PSOE nets disappointing win, Unidas Podemos recedes, as VOX vote soars, PP recovers & Ciudadanos implodes
Spain’s Socialist party (PSOE) scored an underwhelming general election victory Sunday, winning more votes than any other party yet managing to lose…
NGOs demand probe over Vox anti-immigrant videos
Seven Spanish non-governmental organizations have called on the government’s Fiscalia General attorney general’s office to investigate whether controversial election campaign videos produced…
Families of ‘13 Rosas’ sue VOX leader for defamation
The families of 13 young Socialist women who were imprisoned, tortured and summarily executed by a Franquista firing squad four months after…
VOX leaders investigated over Madrid real estate deals
The high-profile spokesperson for Spain’s new ultra-right VOX party in the Madrid regional assembly, Rocio Monasterios, has found herself at the center…
Polls show PSOE slightly down, recovery for PP & VOX
► Socialists hold pole position at around 27-28% share of voter preference ► PP, VOX recovery not seen as sufficient to enable…
CCOO takes on Hazte Oír, VOX for anti-LGBT campaign
► Labour federation files formal complaints over Hazte Oír, VOX campaigns ► CCOO says mass-mailing to schools is clearly homophobic, attacking diversity…
Femen activists protest, pre-empt VOX anniversary rally
► Activists chain selves to arena gates to ‘close the door to fascism in Spain’ ► Protest includes slogans against fascism, VOX…
VOX wants LGBT activist’s name axed from Madrid plaza
► Ultra-right party targets plaza renamed in honour of late-activist Pedro Zerolo ► VOX conflates renaming with ‘Historical Memory’ changes by Carmena…
VOX party’s social media bark more than election bite
? Analysts detect sophisticated, coordinated campaign using fake ‘bot’ accounts ? FB, Twitter, Instagram support built with far-right, Islamophobic messages How to…
Animal-rights party slams VOX, right-wing in video
Spain’s animal-rights party, PACMA (Partido Animalista Contra el Maltrato Animal, or ‘Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals’), has issued a hard-hitting campaign…
Marlaska defends LGBT rights against VOX machismo
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has called for Spaniards to defend the rights of the LGBT community in Spain, lashing out against those…
Vox fields pro-Franco retired military on candidates lists
As if to remove any doubts about just how “far right” Spain’s new ultra-conservative Vox party is, the party has announced among…
POLITIFILE :: VOX
► VOX ► VOX is a far-right national political party launched in January 2014 by former members of the conservative Partido Popular…
Rise of ultra ‘Vox’ party seen dividing Spain’s right wing
A reported surge in the popularity in recent weeks of Spain’s ultra-right party, Vox, was accentuated last week when the party’s second-ranking…
Gov’t greenlights ERTEs furlough plan through Sept 30th
Spain’s coalition government on Friday passed decree legislation that will extend the ERTEs temporary work furlough program through September 30th, following an…
Gov’t kicks off guaranteed minimum income program
The Spanish government on Monday launched its new scheme to provide guaranteed minimum income (ingreso mínimo vital or IMV) to the country’s…
Pacts signal Ciudadanos returning to political centre
What’s going on with Ciudadanos? The once up-and-coming centre-right party that lurched sharply to the right under former leader Albert Rivera, then…
Guaranteed minimum income aims to reduce poverty
Spain’s coalition government has given the green light on Friday to a new Minimum Living Wage program, a guaranteed minimum income scheme…
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,…
Gov’t files lawsuit over ‘parental veto’ in Murcia schools
Spain’s new coalition government has filed a lawsuit against the regional government of Murcia over its failure to meet a 30-day deadline…
Errejón to chair Congress anti-corruption commission
Íñigo Errejón, the co-founder of Podemos who split with his former party last year to launch Más País, has been selected to…
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…
Protests as Murcia gov’t persists with parental veto plan
Hundreds of feminist, LGBT+ and union activists turned out to protest the Murcian regional government’s decision to push ahead with its policy…
Sánchez wins bid to form progressive coalition gov’t
► Socialist leader wins Congress vote 167-165, with 18 abstentions ► ‘YES’ votes (167): PSOE, Unidas Podemos, PNV, Mas País, Compromís, Nueva…
POLITIFILE :: ‘Who’s Who’ among Spain’s political parties
Confused by the ABC’s of Spain’s political parties? That’s understandable, given that the Spanish political landscape is now more fragmented that at…