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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...
Spain’s caretaker prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, vows he can cling onto power
SPAIN’S caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has vowed that he will find the support to be voted back into power, despite having lost the...
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...
Popular Party politician slammed in Spain’s Menorca after she uses public historical site for daughter’s birthday party
A SENIOR politician in Menorca has been slammed by the opposition after she organised a birthday party for her daughter in a protected historical...
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...
Far-right party Vox agrees power sharing deal with conservative PP in Spain’s Murcia region
MURCIA'S regional assembly has re-elected the Partido Popular's Fernando Lopez Miras as president following an investiture vote on Thursday.
Lopez Miras secured an absolute majority...
Children start new school year in old classrooms as council dithers over site for replacement building in expat area...
ORIHUELA COUNCIL has been slammed for 'snubbing' children on the Orihuela Costa after it said that a new infant and primary school in Dehesa...
Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont sets out demands in exchange for supporting Pedro Sanchez
CATALAN separatist leader Carles Puigdemont on Tuesday laid out his demands in exchange for his party’s support for caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s bid...
Spain’s deputy prime minister slammed for meeting with Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont
SPAIN’S caretaker Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz has been slammed by the opposition for meeting with Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont. The politician has...
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...
Pedal power as cyclists protest over cycle routes being removed in Costa Blanca city in Spain
DOZENS of cyclists temporarily blocked the removal of a second cycle lane in Elche ordered by the new Partido Popular-Vox council.
Workers were preparing to...
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...
Spain’s King Felipe VI begins talks with political parties in bid to find a prime ministerial candidate
SPAIN’S king, Felipe VI, is meeting with the country’s political parties over the coming days in an effort to decide on a possible candidate...
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 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...
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...
Explainer: How the vote count from Spaniards living abroad just made Pedro Sanchez’s life a little bit more difficult
THE TASK ahead of Socialist Party leader Pedro Sanchez to be voted back in as prime minister became even more complicated this weekend, as...
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