Feminists demand political parties deliver real equality
More than 100 women’s organizations across Spain have signed on to a manifesto in the run-up to 28th April general elections, calling…
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Marlaska defends LGBT rights against VOX machismo
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has called for Spaniards to defend the rights of the LGBT community in Spain, lashing out against those…
Municipalities to get funding to combat gender violence
Vice-President and Minister for Equality Carmen Calvo said Tuesday that the government of President Pedro Sánchez has set aside funding for 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…
Right to die with dignity erupts into elections campaign
The arrest of a 70-year-old Madrid man for illegally having assisted in the death of his 61-year-old terminally ill wife has thrust…
Congress commission passes six gov’t decrees into law
The Spanish government on Wednesday secured majority votes in the 65-member Permanent Commission of Spain’s Congress to approve six Decretos Leyes (‘Decreed…
PACMA bullfight protest in Sevilla in run-up to elections
Spain’s animal-rights party, PACMA (Partido Animalista Contra el Maltrato Animal, or ‘Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals’), has called its annual protest…
Pensions enter elections debate as PSOE, PP trade barbs
The debate over the pending reform of Spain’s public pensions system hit the campaign trail at the weekend, after Spanish President Pedro…
NGOs urge social justice agenda for election manifestos
Spanish non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have called on the country’s political parties to include commitments to social justice in their party manifestos in…
Beset by crises, is Podemos eyeing leadership change?
Pablo Iglesias returned to active duty on Saturday as general secretary of Podemos with a fiery appearance at a party rally in…
PSOE campaign video links prostitution, sex-trafficking
Tipped to win the most number of seats in Spain’s elections of deputies to the European Parliament (EP) in May, Spain’s Socialist…
Torra defies Junta Electoral over banners in Catalonia
► Near-identical banner covers pro-independence symbols on gov’t building ► Catalan regional President Quim Torra on Thursday defied an order by Spain’s…
Vox fields pro-Franco retired military on candidates lists
As if to remove any doubts about just how “far right” Spain’s new ultra-conservative Vox party is, the party has announced among…
Polls give PSOE slim advantage in upcoming elections
A survey of recent voter opinion polls published at the weekend in the national newspaper Público gives a slim advantage in upcoming…
Parties scrambling to attract undecided women’s vote
Spain’s political parties are already vying for the vote of women in upcoming elections, amid the release of polling figures that suggest…
Ximo Puig calls early Valencia elections for 28th April
Valencian President Ximo Puig on Monday announced the first snap elections for the regional autonomous community since Spain’s return to democracy four…
Gov’t decrees pave way for PSOE election campaign
The outgoing Socialist party (PSOE) government of President Pedro Sánchez plans to use Spain’s express Decreto Ley process over the coming weeks…
Prosecutors call first of 256 witnesses in Catalan trial
Leading Spanish and Catalan politicians took the witness stand on Tuesday and Wednesday to mark the start of a new phase in…
Podemos sinks pensions reform initiative in Congress
A last-ditch effort prior to upcoming national elections in April to push through Congress reforms to Spain’s public pension system was torpedoed…
#VIDEO: Pedro Sánchez interview with RTVE
► President explains why elections called, points to govt’s legislative ‘wins’ ► ► Says Catalan separatists ‘afraid of dialogue’, right-wing seeks confrontation…
Sánchez calls early national elections for 28th April
President Pedro Sánchez on Friday announced he will dissolve Spain’s Congress as of 5th March to make way for new national elections…
Budget defeated, all eyes on Sánchez for early elections
The Spanish government’s 2019 federal budget proposal was defeated in Congress on Wednesday by a vote of 191 to 158 with one…
Opening arguments begin Catalan secessionsts’ trial
Opening arguments in the Supreme Court trial of 12 Catalan secessionist leaders were completed on Wednesday, paving the way for the appearance…
Gov’t calls off talks over Catalan referendum insistence
Spain’s Socialist party government on Friday called off talks on Catalonia’s future with pro-independence leaders of Catalonia’s Generalitat regional leadership. The decision…
Sánchez stresses respect for rights in Strasbourg visit
Just days before the scheduled start of the oral arguments phase in Spain’s high-profile Supreme Court trial of Catalan separatist leaders, President…
Court sets Catalan trial date, prisoners transferred
Spain’s Supreme Court has set the 12th of February as the long-awaited date to begin oral arguments in the trial of Catalan…
Podemos avoids direct clash with Errejón, ‘Más Madrid’
Podemos has backed away from a direct confrontation with party co-founder Íñigo Errejón, following his decision to campaign in upcoming Madrid regional…
PSOE shrugs off defeat, presses on with budget proposal
The minority Socialist party (PSOE) government of President Pedro Sánchez has vowed to press ahead with efforts to pass its 2019 budget,…
Podemos crisis as Errejón joins Carmena’s ‘Más Madrid’
The longtime simmering feud between Podemos party co-founders Íñigo Errejón and Pablo Iglesias over electoral strategies and political alliances erupted into crisis…
Spain ranked as one of 20 ‘full democracies’ worldwide
Spain has been given high marks in the annual global democracy index released earlier this month by The Economist, placing 19th out…
Sánchez warns Catalans against violating Constitution
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez warned Catalan nationalist parties in Congress on Wednesday that his government will not tolerate any violation of Spain’s…