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Pedro Sánchez names his cabinet: four deputy PMs and 18 other ministers

News Desk12th January 202014th January 2020

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Spain’s Socialist (PSOE) Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, officially re-elected on Tuesday 7 January, announced his full new coalition cabinet on Sunday, which includes left-wing Podemos head...

Electoral board declares Catalan president’s MP seat vacant

News Desk12th January 202017th January 2020

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Catalan president Quim Torra has had his seat in the Catalan Parliament declared vacant by the provincial electoral board of Barcelona. It followed Friday’s decision...

EU Parliament reverses decision on Oriol Junqueras MEP status

News Desk11th January 202016th January 2020

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The European Parliament has reversed its decision on the status of jailed Catalan leader Oriol Junqueras as an MEP, and instead endorsed this week’s ruling by...

All seven CDR activists held on terrorism charges now released on bail

News Desk10th January 202015th January 2020

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Spain’s National Court in Madrid has now released on bail the remaining two out of seven activists linked to the pro-independence Committees in Defence of the Republic...

Supreme Court asks EU Parliament to suspend Puigdemont and Comín immunity

News Desk10th January 202013th January 2020

10th January 202013th January 20202632

Pablo Llarena, the Spanish Supreme Court judge, has now asked the European Parliament to suspend the MEP immunity of Carles Puigdemont and Toni Comín. He is also maintaining...

Supreme Court rejects suspending JEC decision on Torra’s disqualification

News Desk10th January 202011th January 2020

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Spain’s Supreme Court rejected on Friday to immediately suspend the decision of the country’s Electoral Authority (JEC) ordering that the Catalan president Quim Torra be disqualified from his...

Judge refuses to release Junqueras after family file for ‘Habeas Corpus’

News Desk10th January 202011th January 2020

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A judge at the local court in Manresa (Barcelona) has refused to release the jailed Catalan independence leader Oriol Junqueras, after the politician’s family filed a petition on...

Supreme Court rules to keep Junqueras in jail, denying MEP immunity

News Desk9th January 202014th January 2020

9th January 202014th January 20202681

The Spanish Supreme Court has now formally denied Catalan jailed leader Oriol Junqueras parliamentary immunity, and will not free him to receive his accreditation as an...

Supreme Court rejects suspending JEC ruling that prevents Junqueras becoming MEP

News Desk9th January 20209th January 2020

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The Spanish Supreme Court has rejected suspending the decision of Spain’s Electoral Authority (JEC) that prevents Oriol Junqueras taking up his seat as an MEP. The Catalan pro-independence...

Pedro Sánchez, Quim Torra finally speak – and will meet in coming days

News Desk9th January 202012th January 2020

9th January 202012th January 20202688

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, officially re-elected on Tuesday, has held a telephone conversation of approximately seven minutes with the Catalan president Quim Torra, and they...

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