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Spain’s conservative Popular Party slips in the polls ahead of the July 23 general election
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...
Former Andalusian premier convicted in so-called ERE case escapes jail due to cancer diagnosis
THE FORMER regional premier of the Andalusia region, Jose Antonio Griñan, will escape jail for now after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. The...
Spain’s prime ministerial hopeful Yolanda Diaz proposes cutting work week from 40 to 32 hours
SPAIN’S deputy prime minister and labour minister, Yolanda Diaz, has proposed lowering the country’s work week from 40 to 37.5 hours a week in...
Spain’s state-run pollster predicts most votes for Socialists at July 23 general election
SPAIN’S state-run Centre for Sociological Research (CIS) has released its latest polling data ahead of the July 23 snap general election, which puts the...
Spain’s post office to boost staff by 10,000 workers to cope with summer general elections
SPAIN’S post office is reportedly finalising a deal to hire around 10,000 extra members of staff so that the system can cope with the...
Spain’s Supreme Court backs sentence reductions for sex offenders under ‘only yes means yes’ law
THE SUPREME COURT has ratified the decisions of lower tribunals to reduce the prison sentences of some convicted sex offenders after the Spanish government’s...
Spain’s PM challenges conservative opponent to six face-to-face debates before snap elections
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...
EU to delay presentation of Spain’s rotating presidency until after snap elections in July
THE SURPRISE decision of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to call snap elections for July 23 continued to have knock-on effects on Friday, after...
After eight years, the Popular Party wins back the Balearics but will need the help of Vox to form...
THE CONSERVATIVE Popular Party was the winner in the Balearic Islands on Sunday, taking the most seats in the regional elections. The group did,...
Spain’s deputy prime minister registers new leftist party Unite in bid to save beleaguered left-wing parties
SPAIN’S Deputy Prime Minister and Labor Minister Yolanda Diaz has officially registered as a political party ahead of the snap general elections that will...
Analysis: Why has Spain’s prime minister called snap elections?
SPAIN’S prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, has been famous for taking risky decisions throughout his political career. And most of the time, these decisions have...
Spain’s opposition leader welcomes early elections but accuses PM of distracting attention from PP’s gains
THE LEADER of Spain’s main opposition Popular Party, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, today accused Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of calling a snap general election in...
Opinion polls: Conservative Popular Party expected to win elections in Madrid, Valencia and Aragon regions
OPINION POLLS released at 8pm today, as the polls closed in the 2023 local and regional elections, suggest that tonight will see the conservative...
Spaniards brave the rain to vote in 2023 regional and local elections
MILLIONS OF SPANIARDS braved rain showers to keep their date with the polling booths on Sunday, as elections were held in 12 of the...
Spain takes a step closer to law that will ensure 40% of company boards are women
THE SPANISH Cabinet has approved the second stage of a draft law that seeks to boost the presence of women in politics, business and...
Spain’s prime minister and opposition leader clash over ETA in first face-to-face debate of the election campaign
AFTER a decades-long bloody campaign for an independent Basque Country, terrorist group ETA was officially dissolved in 2018. But the shadow of the organisation...
Spain to introduce ‘right to forget’ for cancer patients to avoid discrimination
SPANISH Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced at the weekend that his government will be introducing a ‘right to forget’ for former cancer patients, a...
As local election campaign kicks off, Spain’s prime minister promises subsidised cinema tickets for the over-65s
ANOTHER weekend in the run-up to the May 28 local and regional elections in Spain, and another spending promise from Spanish Prime Minister Pedro...
Spain’s prime minister calls plan to include 44 convicted members of ETA terror group on election lists ‘indecent’
SPANISH Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has slammed a decision by Basque political party EH Bildu to include 44 convicted members of now-defunct terrorist organisation...
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez makes first visit to White House
US President Joe Biden warmly welcomed Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to the White House on Friday, as part of an official visit to...
Explainer: Why Spain’s leftist parties could hold the key to the 2023 general election
SPAIN’S political parties are focussing their attention right now on the upcoming regional and local elections, which will be held across much of the...
Brussels issues new warning over plans for Spain’s Doñana National Park
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION has once again warned the Andalusian regional government that its plans to grant new watering rights to farmers in the area...
Founder of Spain’s fascist Falange party, Primo de Rivera, to be exhumed from monument on Monday
THE REMAINS of the founder of Spain’s fascist Falange party, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, are to be exhumed by his family from the...
US President Joe Biden invites Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to White House
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden has invited Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to the White House for a visit that will take place in the...
Explainer: What will the government’s planned housing law mean for landlords and tenants?
THE SPANISH government has been negotiating a proposed housing law for months, if not years, and the deal that has been hammered out between...
Date set for second motion of no confidence against Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez
THE SPEAKER in Spain’s lower house of parliament, the Congress of Deputies, has confirmed the date that a motion of no confidence will be...
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