25th April 2024

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PSOE preparing draft Catalan amnesty bill ahead of Sánchez investiture vote

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Spain’s acting Prime Minister, socialist (PSOE) Pedro Sánchez, and the Catalan president, Pere Aragonès of the pro-independence Esquerra Republicana (ERC) party, have agreed on the terms of a
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Pedro Sánchez: ‘In the interest of Spain, I defend amnesty in Catalonia’

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Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Saturday that he supports granting a controversial amnesty to those involved in Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid, in
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Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz reach PSOE-Sumar coalition deal

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Spain’s socialist PSOE party and the left-wing alliance of Sumar said on Tuesday that they have reached an agreement to form a coalition government, a
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Sánchez jeered at Spain’s national day, with chants of controversial slogan

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Many Spaniards jeered acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez at the country’s National Day military parade in Madrid on Thursday, over his efforts to end Spain’s
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King Felipe instructs Pedro Sánchez to try and form a government

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Spain’s King Felipe VI on Tuesday instructed the current acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez with trying to form a government, and thereby seek to also
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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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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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With Sánchez and Feijóo both claiming victory in the election … what happens next?

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Report updated to include votes from Spaniards living abroad. Spain faces weeks, if not months, of a political gridlock following the general election held on
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Spain’s right-wing PP win the election, but not a majority, even with far-right Vox

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With over 98% of the votes counted, Spain’s right-wing People’s Party (PP) led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo won the biggest share of votes and seats
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Outcome of 23 July election could raise Catalan independence tensions again

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Spain’s right wing, in power under former pemier Mariano Rajoy during Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid, is trying to regain ground in the vote-rich region