11th February 2025

Alberto Núñez Feijóo

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After Feijóo fails in his bid to become Spain’s prime minister, what happens next?

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With Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s bid to become Spain’s prime minister definitively over after Friday’s second vote, socialist leader Pedro Sánchez, currently the acting prime minister
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The PP’s Alberto Núñez Feijóo loses first parliamentary vote to become PM

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Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the leader of the right-wing People’s Party (PP), saw his first bid to become Spain’s next prime minister rejected by the Spanish
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Rally against Catalan amnesty, ahead of Feijóo facing ‘doomed’ investiture vote

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Tens of thousands of supporters of Spain’s current opposition right-wing People’s Party (PP), led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, rallied in Madrid on Sunday against the possible plans
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Spain must wait to see if EU will accept Catalan, Basque & Galician as official languages

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Spain’s demand for Catalan, Basque and Galician to become official EU languages faced opposition on Tuesday as the bloc’s member states fear any such move
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Puigdemont demands ‘amnesty’ for all independence activists as ‘precondition’ for Sánchez’s investiture

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The exiled former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, demanded on Tuesday an amnesty for hundreds of activists facing legal action over a failed 2017 independence
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Yolanda Díaz ‘looks for democratic solutions via dialogue’ with Puigdemont in Brussels

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Spain’s acting deputy prime minister and labour minister, Yolanda Díaz, who is also the head of the left-wing Sumar group of parties, went to Brussels
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Sánchez rejects Feijóo’s request to back his premiership bid and two-year term proposal

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Spain’s socialist acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has rejected a proposal made by Alberto Núñez Feijóo to support his right-wing People’s Party (PP) for a two-year government
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King Felipe instructs Feijóo to try and form government, yet without guaranteed support

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King Felipe VI has instructed the leader of the right-wing People’s Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to try and form a government, despite not having
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Socialist candidate Armengol elected as parliament speaker – seen as step to Sánchez securing re-election

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Francina Armengol, the candidate proposed by Spain’s PSOE socialist party, was elected by MPs as the parliament’s new speaker on Thursday morning, which has been
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Spain’s Aragón becomes 4th region to be jointly governed by PP & far-right Vox

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Spain’s right-wing People’s Party (PP) and the far-right Vox group agreed on Friday to form a coalition in the region of Aragón, following the 28