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…
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After bruising debate, Sánchez key vote set for Tuesday
After a grueling two-day investiture debate in Spain’s Congress that lasted all of Saturday and into Sunday morning, acting President Pedro Sánchez…
ERC-PSOE accord gives green light to Sánchez election
After weeks of negotiations, the national executive council of the Catalan separatist party Esquerra Republicana (ERC) has approved a pact with the…
What does the EU court ruling on Junqueras mean?
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Strasbourg has issued a far-reaching and unprecedented ruling that overturns a widely accepted norm as…
Sánchez accepts King’s request to form new government
Acting President Pedro Sánchez announced Wednesday evening that he has accepted the request made to him by Spain’s head of state, King…
#VIDEO 300 feminists shout down ‘machista’ heckler
Some 300 women who gathered Monday in Santiago de Compostela’s Praza do Obradoiro to perform the global feminist anthem against gender violence…
Protest over Saudi ship onloading munitions in Sagunto
Despite protests from Spanish peace and anti-war activists, a Saudi Arabian cargo ship was allowed to dock and onload munitions in the…
Oxfam: Spain’s richest pollute most, poor pay the price
The Spanish affiliate of international development aid agency Oxfam says in a new report that the richest households in Spain pollute twice…
Esquerra puts kibosh on new government before January
Catalonia’s pro-independence Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) party on Monday dashed the hopes of acting President Pedro Sánchez to quickly have a…
Felipe VI kicks off two days of consultation with parties
Spain’s head of state, King Felipe VI, embarked Tuesday on a two-day marathon round of consultations with leaders of political parties represented…
Madrid ‘Big Sleep Out’ puts focus on Spain’s homeless
Hundreds of volunteers slept out in the cold on Saturday night in Madrid as part of the global “World’s Big Sleep Out”,…
Greta Thunberg joins Madrid climate change protests
Thousands of protesters of all ages joined Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg in marching through downtown Madrid Friday to demand concrete…
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…
NGO says Spain’s poorest students at disadvantage
Child-rights campaigning organization Save the Children España has said that children from poorer families in Spain are four times more likely to…
Right splits, Left gets six seats on new Congress ‘Mesa’
Parties on the progressive left managed to pick up an unprecedented six seats on the nine-member executive Mesa del Congreso of Spain’s…
Boat migrant influx down 55pct, despite rise in Canaries
The number of arrivals of migrants and asylum seekers arriving to Spanish shores by boat has fallen by 54.7 percent this year,…
Sánchez commits Spain to slash carbon 30pct by 2030
Acting President Pedro Sánchez announced Monday that Spain is committing to a sharp reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions that cause global warming and…
Censure of Saudi ‘Supercopa’ location over rights issues
The LGBT+ fan club of the Valencia CF football team has added its name to a growing list of organizations condemning the…
Gender-violence judge to preside over Spain’s Senate
The Socialist party (PSOE) majority in the Spanish Senate is set to name a career judge specializing in gender-violence crimes to preside…
Madrid Central cut emissions by 20 percent in first year
The Madrid Central anti-pollution plan put in place under the progressive administration of former Mayor Manuela Carmena significantly reduced air-contamination in Spain’s…
#VIDEO Greenpeace protests Black Friday consumerism
Activists from Greenpeace España unfurled a banner on Friday in downtown Madrid to protest the consumerism of ‘Black Friday’ sales promotions in…
Huge influx of asylum seekers overwhelms shelters
A huge influx of asylum seekers in the past year — primarily from Venezuela and other Latin American countries — has led…
FELGTB seeks Ombudsman ruling on diversity education
The federation of organizations representing Spain’s LGBT+ community has called on the national Defensor del Pueblo ombudsman’s office to intercede with a…
Tens of thousands march to protest gender violence
Tens of thousands marched across Spain on Monday to protest violence against women in Spanish society and take special aim at those…
#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…
Survey ranks Spain’s democracy at 13th best worldwide
A global survey on democracy conducted every year since 1995 has ranked Spain 13th worldwide in democratic values and practices, a jump…
#VIDEO: Femen activists disrupt Franco anniversary
Activists of the feminist direct-action group FEMEN interrupted for the second consecutive year an annual march and rally on the anniversary of…
Study shows climate change hits women & girls hardest
Climate change is multiplying the inequality and discrimination faced by women and girls in the developing world, according to a new study…
Extinction Rebellion Spain activists join hunger strike
Climate-change activists belonging to the Spanish affiliate of the global climate-action group Extinction Rebellion Spain have joined the weeklong hunger-strike that kicked…
Two ‘La Manada’ gang rapists given additional jail time
A regional criminal court in the regional community of Navarra has sentenced two of the five members of the La Manada group…
Unions warn of gender-violence denial by right-wing
Spain’s leading labour union federations have called for vigilance against what they say is a campaign of gender-violence denial that threatens the…