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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Gov’t agencies join trend to generate own solar energy
Spain’s self-generated solar energy movement appears to be booming just one year after the Socialist government of President Pedro Sánchez scrapped the…
Spanish NGO helps Syrian city rebuild, brick by brick
A Spanish non-governmental overseas development organization working since 2001 in Syria has launched a unique fundraising campaign to support its ongoing efforts…
Families to finally recover Republican victims’ remains
A government agency has authorized the disinterment from the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum complex outside Madrid of the remains of 31…
PSOE, Unidas Podemos agree to attempt coalition gov’t
Leaders of Spain’s Socialist party and smaller left-wing rival Unidas Podemos signed a 10-point “pre-agreement” on Tuesday establishing the basis for formation…
DOCUMENT: PSOE-Unidas Podemos coalition accord
Follows is an English-language translation of the 10-point ‘pre-agreement’ toward a coalition government between the Socialist party (PSOE) and Unidas Podemos, signed…
Felipe VI challenges U.S. sanctions with visit to Cuba
Spain’s Head of State, King Felipe VI, is on a three-day visit to Cuba this week in an effort to strengthen diplomatic…
Who wins, who loses under Spain’s electoral system?
There is no short answer, unfortunately, to the question of who wins and who loses under Spain’s complicated electoral system. That’s because…
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…
Andorra poll: PSOE still leads, but Left shy of majority
A voter-preference survey conducted by the GESOP polling organization and published Wednesday outside Spain in neighbouring Andorra shows the Socialist party (PSOE)…
Barcelona prosecutors appeal Manresa rape trial verdict
Barcelona’s district attorney’s office has announced it will appeal the verdict and sentencing of five men on a charge of sexual abuse…
Gov’t can tackle disorder with digital networks control
A new legislative decree published Tuesday in the government’s BOE official gazette has given Spain’s Economy Ministry the right in exceptional circumstances…
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…
Sánchez holds ground in debate in run-up to election
The nationally televised debate Monday night between the five leading candidates to become the next president of Spain saw the frontrunner, acting…
Polls show no clear majority for Left or Right
The last publicly available voter surveys prior to next Sunday’s general election show a virtual stalemate, with no single party or blocs…
Spain to host UN’s COP25 Climate Change Conference
The United Nations has agreed to Spain’s offer to host the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid in early…
PSOE slams PP drift to right, nixes ‘grand coalition’ pact
Acting Spanish President Pedro Sánchez kicked off his ruling Socialist party (PSOE) election campaign at the weekend, pledging that the PSOE will…
Misleading Facebook ads linked to PP election campaign
A series of paid ads posted to Facebook and Instagram through fake accounts that are meant to discourage the left-wing vote in…
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…
Macro-CIS survey projects clear victory for Socialists
The release of results of the most-recent monthly voter survey from the government’s own Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) on Tuesday shows…