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Fresh general election in Spain looms, as Popular Party prime ministerial candidate loses first investiture vote
AS HAD BEEN widely predicted, Popular Party (PP) leader Alberto Nuñez Feijoo today lost the first vote at an investiture debate that could see...
Analysis: Popular Party’s Alberto Nuñez Feijoo uses own investiture debate to act as opposition leader
FOR POLITICAL analysts in Spain, the head of the conservative Popular Party (PP), Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, behaved more like an opposition leader during day...
Explainer: Why the Popular Party’s Alberto Nuñez Fejioo is doomed to fail at this week’s investiture vote, and what...
THE LEADER of Spain’s conservative Popular Party (PP), Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, will be the protagonist of a two-day investiture debate in the Congress of...
Thousands take to streets of Spain’s capital Madrid to protest against amnesty for Catalan secessionists
THOUSANDS of people took to the streets of Madrid on Sunday to join a protest led by the conservative Popular Party against a potential...
Spain’s Congress takes historic step to allow use of other languages in parliamentary debates
SPAIN’S lower house of parliament, the Congress of Deputies, took an historic step this week by allowing for the use of three extra languages...
Majority of Spain’s women’s football team drops boycott as 21 of 23 players agree to play in upcoming Nations...
NEARLY all of Spain’s 23 women’s football players on the national team have agreed to end their boycott and play against Sweden in the...
Spain mobilises relief aid for Morocco as earthquake death toll rises above 2,000
THE OVERNIGHT death toll released by the Moroccan authorities after Friday night’s devastating earthquake rose to at least 2,012 people, with another 2,059 reported...
Pedro Sanchez tests positive for Covid: Spain’s caretaker PM, 51, is forced to skip G-20 summit
SPAIN'S acting Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, will not attend this weekend's G-20 summit in New Delhi because he has contracted Covid-19.
Sanchez made the announcement...
Spain’s caretaker prime minister takes aim at football chief Luis Rubiales once more
SPAIN’S caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has once again voiced criticism of the embattled head of the Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, who is still...
Pedro Sanchez visits the Costa del Sol: Spain’s PM enjoys The Strokes at the Cala Mijas music festival
SPAIN'S prime minister Pedro Sanchez enjoyed a night of music at an international festival on the Costa del Sol on Friday.
The socialist leader,...
Socialists reject Popular Party’s proposal to end political stalemate in Spain
THE SOCIALIST PARTY on Wednesday rejected outright a proposal from the conservative Popular Party for a two-year government headed up by its leader, Alberto...
Spain’s Popular Party makes offer of two-year term in office to Socialists in bid to break political deadlock
THE LEADER of Spain’s conservative Popular Party (PP), Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, on Wednesday made an offer to caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of the...
Spain’s caretaker prime minister agrees to meeting with Popular Party leader ahead of investiture vote
SPAIN’S caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday agreed to a face-to-face meeting with opposition Popular Party leader Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, as the conservative...
Dates revealed for parliamentary votes that could make Partido Popular’s Alberto Nuñez Feijoo new prime minister of Spain
THE NEW Congress speaker, Francina Armengol, has announced September 26 and 27 as the dates of investiture debates and votes for the Partido Popular's...
Spain’s caretaker prime minister assures king he has the support needed to be voted back into office
DURING A meeting with Spain’s King Felipe VI today, caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez assured the monarch that he will count on the necessary...
Pedro Sanchez says apologies are ‘insufficient’ over Spanish FA chief kissing World Cup winning player Jenni Hermoso on lips
SPAIN'S acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has branded an apology for an inappropriate kiss by a top football official as 'insufficient'.
The chairman of Spain's...
EXPLAINER: The role of Spain’s King Felipe in forming new government with political parties seeing monarch next week
KING FELIPE will have two days of discussions next week with the leaders of Spain's political parties elected to Congress in July's inconclusive general...
Pedro Sanchez scores important victory with Catalan separatist backing as he tries to remain Spain’s Prime Minister
ACTING Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pulled off a big win on Thursday in his bid to keep his job and form a new government,...
Pedro Sanchez vows to form new government in Spain as he promises to promote Catalan and other regional languages...
SPAIN'S acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday that he will go for a Congress investiture vote to form a new government after...
Far-right Vox offers Partido Popular’s Feijoo ‘no-strings’ backing to form new minority government in Spain
SPAIN'S far-right Vox party has offered the conservative Partido Popular a 'no-strings' deal where it would back a PP minority government without demanding a...
Spain’s government explores legal action against food-delivery service Glovo over employment practices
THE SPANISH government is exploring legal action against delivery service Glovo if it continues to refuse to obey the law and give its ‘riders’...
Popular Party and Vox reach a coalition deal in Spain’s northern Aragon region
THE CONSERVATIVE Popular Party (PP) and far-right Vox have reached a coalition deal for the northern Spanish region of Aragon, after an inconclusive result...
Spain’s caretaker prime minister slammed by opposition for picking Morocco as holiday destination
NOT EVEN on vacation can Spain’s caretaker prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, escape attacks from the country’s opposition parties. This time, the Socialist Party leader...
Spain’s job market breaks another new record in July but job creation slows slightly
THE SPANISH job market continued to perform well in the month of July, although job creation did start to slow slightly after a strong...
Catalan premier takes advantage of political stalemate in Spain to push for independence referendum
THE REGIONAL premier of Catalunya today took advantage of the stalemate after last week’s general elections in Spain to put pressure on the Socialist...
Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says he will seek parliamentary majority in Spain’s Congress
BATTLE LINES are continuing to be drawn over who will be Span's next prime minister after July 23rd's indecisive general election result.
Acting Prime Minister...
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