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…
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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…
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…
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…
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: 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…
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…
Court action threatened over removal of Quiepo remains
An umbrella organization representing groups focused on the historical memory of events occurring in Andalucia during Spain’s civil war say they will…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
Carmena returns to running non-profit clothing NGO
► Madrid’s former progressive mayor goes back to work with NGO she founded ► Zapatelas sells children’s clothing made by migrant women,…
Polls & analysis: What will change after new election?
► Socialists seen to bolster position, while Unidas Podemos slides in polls ► Ciudadanos big losers, with PP rebound and VOX support…
Officials warn of conflating gender, domestic violence
► Equating gender violence with ‘inter-family violence’ creates confusion ► VOX says gender violence ‘big lie’, same amount of violence against men…
Orihuela football club supports diversity, LGBT rights
► Deportiva Orihuela says its membership voted for rainbow emblem on uniform ► Goalkeeper jersey includes logo of local ‘Atrévete Orihuela’ LGBT…
Ciudadanos leaders ousted from Madrid pride parade
► Centre-right party blocked by protesters, chants of No Pasaran! at pride event ► Critics complain of Ciudadanos alliances with far-right, anti-LGBT…
PSOE big winner of elections, but Left loses in Madrid
► Socialists win most votes in 10 of 12 regional elections contested Sunday ► PSOE also wins 33pct of Euro Parliament vote…
Left controls Congress ‘Mesa’ for first time in 30 years
► PSOE’s Meritxell Batet elected President of nine-member Mesa Directiva ► PSOE & Unidas Podemos control five-seat majority of crucial committee Left-of-center…
PACMA again defeated by Spain’s electoral legislation
Animal-rights party PACMA (Partido Animalista Contra el Maltrato Animal, or ‘Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals’) has criticized Spain’s electoral legislation for…
Feminists say women’s vote key to PSOE election victory
Spain’s feminist organizations have lauded the participation of women in rallies and demonstrations in the months leading up to the 28th April…
Socialist party wins Valencia for first time since 1991
President Ximo Puig of the regional Socialist party affiliate PSPV-PSOE was the only leader of Spain’s 13 autonomous communities with elections scheduled…
PSOE wins election, will need support to form new gov’t
► High voter turnout & splintered right-wing vote hand victory to Socialists ► PP suffers historic defeat, ultra-right VOX party falls short…
Hazte Oír targets PP, Cs & PSOE with buses, billboards
Ultra-right group Hazte Oír (Make Yourself Heard) has targeted Spain’s three leading political parties in a campaign of negative attack ads aimed…
Party leaders vie for undecided voters in first TV debate
With as many as 30 percent of Spanish voters still saying they are undecided over which party they’ll vote for on 28th…
Polls show Catalan Socialists running close behind ERC
Voter preference surveys in Catalonia in the run-up to the 28th April general elections are showing a surprisingly tight race between the…
Just how reliable are Spain’s pre-election poll results?
Less than three weeks until Spain’s 28th April general elections, a flurry of voter survey polls are being released on a near-daily…