The long and winding road: Spain’s tortuous path to a new coalition government or new general elections
• Sánchez has just 30 days, before clock starts ticking toward new elections • Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez has been granted 3-4…
• Sánchez has just 30 days, before clock starts ticking toward new elections • Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez has been granted 3-4…
• Anti-capitalist party leadership votes 36-30 against Mas bid for presidency • Independence momentum stalls, parliamentary elections rerun almost certain Catalonia’s small…
• Valencian president says PSOE does not have votes for coalition government • Puig says Podemos demands on Catalonia nixed chance for…
• Under pressure, party leader says ‘No’ to Podemos over Catalonia vote • Regional leaders push for annual party conference, possible primary…
• PP, PSOE, Ciudadanos & Podemos lineup for the final countdown • General elections to decide who governs Spain in 2016 and…
• Governing conservative PP will fall far short of absolute majority • PSOE, Ciudadanos neck-and-neck in two surveys, Podemos lagging in fourth…
• Left party wants legally resident foreigners to vote in regional balloting • Move would affect citizens of EU, 12 other nations…
• High-profile judge takes leave of absence to run on Podemos ticket • Juan Pedro Yllanes was slated to preside over trial…
• New-left Podemos, old-left Izquierda Unida fail to agree on national coalition • A ‘broad front’ strategy left to local regional movements…
• Anti-austerity party lures former Defense chief to election ticket • Rodríguez Fernández to campaign for Congressional seat from Zaragoza Spain’s insurgent-left…
• Latest opinion polls show Spain’s newest left-wing party losing steam • Party image dogged by Venezuela ties, poor showings in regional…
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► Final deal cuts direct grants to 72.7bn, ups loans to 67.3bn with EU oversight ► Spain agrees not to repeal Rajoy-era…
Spain’s coalition government has told the national association of municipalities and provinces that local town councils across Spain will be allowed to…
The Spanish section of global rights campaigner Amnesty International has issued a damning report on the gutting of Spain’s public healthcare system…
The Minister of Social Security, Inclusion and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, has defended a case-by-case analysis of the situation of each migrant…
Spain took the lead among European countries in 2019 in the installation of both photovoltaic solar capacity and wind-powered electricity installation according…
The families of eight victims of the Franco regime who believe their family members’ remains are buried in the Valle de los…
Nearly all of Catalonia 7.5 million residents will be required to wear facemasks both in enclosed public spaces and in most outdoor…
A court case brought against the family of former Spanish dictator Francsco Franco by government prosecutors in Galicia heard witness testimony this…
The coalition government’s Consejo de Ministros executive cabinet on Tuesday voted to extend through September 30th the moratorium on payment of mortgages…
Cascading coronavirus outbreaks have spread across 15 of Spain’s 17 autonomous regional communities since the state-of-alert lockdown was lifted, with the national…
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,…
The policy of Spain’s “progressive” coalition government regarding arms sales to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has made a radical about-face since…
Spain has shut down seven of the country’s 15 coal-fired power plants, as plant operators say they cannot afford to invest sufficiently…
Spain’s coalition government on Friday passed decree legislation that will extend the ERTEs temporary work furlough program through September 30th, following an…
For the first time in the history of Spain, the country’s Ministry of Defense will be led entirely headed by women, after…
Spain’s central government and regional authorities in Catalonia and Galicia have been left scrambling to avert imminent plant closures by multinationals Nissan…
Tenuous gains made in the fight against poverty over the last four years as Spain began easing out of its last economic…
Two local judges have cancelled the year-long moratorium on the payment of fines by motorists for driving vehicles in downtown Madrid in…
Spain’s Canary Islands are experiencing an “exponential increase” in the arrival of migrants to the islands off Morocco’s Atlantic coast so far…