29th September 2023

Junts per Catalunya (JxCat)

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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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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 Constitutional Court rejects hearing Puigdemont’s appeal against arrest warrant

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Spain’s Constitutional Court has rejected hearing an appeal lodged by the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and ex-health minister Toni Comín against the warrants for
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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 public prosecutor requests new EU arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont

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See end of report for update. Spain’s public prosecutor has asked the Supreme Court to issue a new European Arrest Warrant for former Catalan president
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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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Socialist Jaume Collboni becomes the new Barcelona mayor

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Jaume Collboni, the Catalan socialist (PSC) candidate for the city of Barcelona in the 28 May local elections, has become the mayor of Spain’s second city, despite