ON JULY 23, Spaniards will be heading to polling booths across the country for the fifth time in the last 10 years, to choose the next prime minister and the next government.
A HUGE advertising billboard installed in central Madrid by a notorious right-wing evictions company continued to cause controversy on Friday, after activists partially covered it up with their own poster. Desokupa, a
THE Conservative opposition Partido Popular(PP) will create a National Water Authority if it wins the July 23 general election to deal with Spain’s water supply issues for farmers and other sectors. Despite
FAR-RIGHT party Vox and an eviction company called Desokupa have been making use of a murder in Madrid to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment, despite the fact the two suspects in the killing are
“QUE TE vote Txapote.” Roughly translated: Get Txapote to vote for you. This seemingly innocent Spanish phrase, which is nice and catchy thanks to its rhyme, is causing an ongoing headache for
THE LEADER of the conservative Popular Party in Extremadura, Maria Guardiola, did a complete U-turn on Friday and signed a coalition deal with far-right Vox in order to form a government. The
THE SPEAKER in Spain’s Congress of Deputies has been forced to apologise after she controversially stated that ‘most of the population has no problem paying their rent’. Meritxell Batet of the Socialist
AFTER right-wing parties made major gains at the May 28 local and regional elections, it seemed like a government led by the conservative Popular Party (PP) and backed by far-right Vox would
TERRORISM victims have called on Spain’s Congress of Deputies to ensure that convicted members of now-defunct Basque terrorist group ETA cannot hold public office. Speaking on Tuesday in Congress, the president of
THE SPANISH Cabinet on Tuesday approved an extension to a raft of measures that were put in place to help combat the cost-of-living crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year
THE FAR-RIGHT Vox party has been ordered to take down a Madrid poster in which symbols representing feminism, communism, the LGBTQ community, squatters, and the Catalunya independence flag are being thrown away
SPAIN will pay back up to 15% of income tax to people who buy an electric vehicle before the end of the year in a bid to encourage sustainable driving. The maximum
THE FORMER regional premier of the Andalusia region, Jose Antonio Griñan, will escape jail for now after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. The politician was given a six-year prison sentence for
SPAIN’S Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, has admitted to a controversial new rape law being ‘the biggest mistake’ of his government. In a Sunday interview with La Sexta, Sanchez said: “It has been
SPAIN’S Economy Minister Nadia Calviño has said that she expects the Council of Ministers to extend on Tuesday some of the anti-crisis measures that are scheduled to expire on June 30. Speaking
SPANISH POLITICIAN Carla Antonelli is set to become the country’s first transexual senator, after the leftist party Mas Madrid announced it was designating her as its representative in the upper house of
THE SPOKESPERSON for the conservative Popular Party (PP) has had to make a statement distancing his group from Vox, after the far-right group placed a huge advert in the centre of Madrid
THE RAINBOW-coloured flag representing the LGBTQ community has been banned from public buildings in Naquera following Vox coming top of the poll in May’s municipal elections. The far-right Vox party under new
THIS SATURDAY saw more than 8,000 local councils formed across Spain, in the wake of the May 28 local and regional elections. The make-up of these administrations reflects the shift to the
THE LEADER of the conservative Partido Popular, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, has said that fresh elections would have been called in the Valencian Community if a pact had not been agreed on Tuesday
THE FAR-RIGHT Vox party will get a first taste of power in the Valencian government after a coalition deal was struck on Tuesday which will see the Partido Popular’s Carlos Mazon become
AFTER SOME tense negotiations, a new leftist bloc called Sumar (Unite) was submitted to electoral authorities on Friday just hours before a deadline to register coalitions expired. Among the parties that have
THE LEADER of Spain’s far-left party Podemos has said that it will run with new left grouping Sumar in July’s general election. Podemos general secretary Ione Belarra made the declaration on Friday
LEFTIST POLITICAL party Podemos (We Can) is going to make a last-minute consultation of its grassroots members before deciding whether or not to join forces with a new left-wing bloc called Sumar
THE SNAP general election that has been called for July 23 continues to have unexpected consequences. On Monday, a group of German lawmakers opted to call off a visit they were going
AHEAD OF THE July 23 snap general election, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday challenged his main opponent to six face-to-face debates. But the Popular Party (PP) hopeful Alberto Nuñez Feijoo has
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