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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

Quim Torra ratified as Catalan president, despite electoral authority ruling

News Desk5th January 202010th January 2020

5th January 202010th January 20201803

Catalan president Quim Torra appeared before an extraordinary plenary session of the Catalan Parliament at his own request on Saturday afternoon, only a day after Spain’s Electoral

Quim Torra disqualified from Catalan presidency

News Desk3rd January 20205th January 2020

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Catalan president Quim Torra has said that he will not accept the order from the Spanish Electoral Authority (JEC) ordering that he must be disqualified from his post.

Pedro Sánchez confident he can secure support to form government

News Desk21st November 201930th November 2019

21st November 201930th November 20191927

Spain’s acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez said on Wednesday that he is confident that a ‘full capacity’ government can be formed ‘in the next few weeks’,

Albert Rivera resigns as leader of Cs, and quits politics

News Desk11th November 201914th November 2019

11th November 201914th November 20192230

Albert Rivera resigned as leader of Spain’s Ciudadanos (Cs) party on Monday, following the disastrous results for the party in Sunday’s general election. He has also

Basque Country Opinion Spotlight

Opinion: Will the Basques be next?

Ben Wray9th November 201914th August 2020

9th November 201914th August 20208720

Ask Basques about whether they were shocked by the scale of the police brutality and judicial repression of the Catalan independence movement in recent weeks,

The far-right and Catalonia mark the end of the election campaign

News Desk9th November 201912th November 2019

9th November 201912th November 20191939

Spanish political parties concluded a short but intensive campaign on Friday in preparation for the country’s general election on Sunday 10 November – the fourth

Nine days of protests in Catalonia, and on-going …

Newsdesk / ACN22nd October 201930th October 2019

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When the Spanish Supreme Court announced its verdict on the Catalan independence leaders on Monday 14 October, sentencing nine politicians and activists to jail for

Catalan independence parties call to ‘reiterate’ self-determination resolution

Newsdesk / ACN22nd October 201930th October 2019

22nd October 201930th October 20191615

Quim Torra, the Catalan president, has insisted on calling Spain’s acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez to engage in ‘unconditional dialogue and propose political solutions’ in a statement

Governments exchange criticism after week’s protests leave 579 injured

Newsdesk / ACN20th October 201922nd October 2019

20th October 201922nd October 20192252

The Catalan and Spanish governments are caught in a battle of words, after the week’s protests across Catalonia left 579 injured. The Catalan government has

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