Sánchez jeered at Spain’s national day, with chants of controversial slogan
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
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...
After Feijóo fails in his bid to become Spain’s prime minister, what happens next?
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...
Spain must wait to see if EU will accept Catalan, Basque & Galician as official languages
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...
Puigdemont demands ‘amnesty’ for all independence activists as ‘precondition’ for Sánchez’s investiture
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...
Yolanda Díaz ‘looks for democratic solutions via dialogue’ with Puigdemont in Brussels
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...
Sánchez rejects Feijóo’s request to back his premiership bid and two-year term proposal
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...
Socialist candidate Armengol elected as parliament speaker – seen as step to Sánchez securing re-election
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...
Spain’s Constitutional Court rejects hearing Puigdemont’s appeal against arrest warrant
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...
With Sánchez and Feijóo both claiming victory in the election … what happens next?
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...
