EU election TV debate sees candidate walk off
One of the candidates taking part in a TV debate for the EU Parliament elections on the Catalan public TV3 station walked off the set...
Oriol Junqueras
Jailed MPs to visit Congress on 21 May for swearing in
Spain’s Supreme Court will allow the five newly-elected Catalan MPs – currently still in custody whilst on trial in Madrid – to swear in and...
Junqueras stopped from joining EU election TV debate
Spain’s electoral authority (JEC) has stopped the jailed Catalan politician, Oriol Junqueras – who is currently on trial at the Supreme Court – from taking part...
Campaigns for local and EU elections kick off
The campaigns for Spain’s local elections have got underway, with voters able to cast their ballots to choose who governs in city and town halls across...
Jailed Catalans request release to be sworn in as MPs
The lawyers of five Catalan politicians currently still in custody whilst on trial for the 2017 independence bid, have asked the Supreme Court to allow...
Sánchez unlikely to form government until June
With Spain due to return to the polls on 26 May for the regional, local and European Parliament elections, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will be in no...
Catalan Trial: Day 37 summary
Two members of the European Parliament (MEPs) gave testimony in the morning session of day 37 of the Catalan Trial, hailing Raül Romeva as a ‘defender of...
General Election focus: the ERC party
Esquerra Republicana (ERC) – the ‘Republican Left of Catalonia’ party – has been crusading for an independent, social democratic Catalan state for 88 years. It...
Political tension ahead of TV electoral debates
The president of Spain’s People’s Party (PP), Pablo Casado, has said that the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, ‘is only right when he amends’ previous decisions,...
Oriol Junqueras holds press conference from prison
The leader of the Esquerra Republicana (ERC) party, Oriol Junqueras, has held a press conference from prison for the first time since his imprisonment in...
