PSOE wants to shore up pensions with new tax on banks
► Budget fixes, minimum wage hike part of plan to revert pensions deficit ► Pedro Sánchez, general secretary of Spain’s Socialist party…
► Budget fixes, minimum wage hike part of plan to revert pensions deficit ► Pedro Sánchez, general secretary of Spain’s Socialist party…
► Law to protect LGBTI families from discrimination, provides for sanctions ► In its last legislative session of 2017, Andalucia’s regional Parliament…
► PSOE prioritizes LGBTI rights, church-state separation, death with dignity ► Spain’s Socialist party (PSOE) has released a working paper on a…
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• Sánchez collects surprise 57,369 signatures of support against 63,610 for Díaz • Ousted Socialist leader relies on activists across Spain in…
• Unidos Podemos coincides 20th May Madrid demo with PSOE leadership vote • Left coalition to use protest to confront Socialists over…
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