PP’s ties with far-right hamper Feijóo’s attempts to form a government
Report updated to include votes from Spaniards living abroad. The options to form a government have diminished considerably for Spain’s right-wing People’s Party (PP) despite...
Pedro Sánchez
Spain’s public prosecutor requests new EU arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont
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...
Spain’s right-wing PP win the election, but not a majority, even with far-right Vox
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...
Right-wing fuels ‘Trumpist’ accusations of electoral fraud as Spain hits postal vote record
Just three days before Spain’s snap election, some 2.6 million voters have opted to vote by post, fuelling ‘Trumpist’-style conspiracy theories about possible fraud which...
Outcome of 23 July election could raise Catalan independence tensions again
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...
Sánchez and Feijóo clash in unruly and chaotic TV election debate
Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of the main opposition party, the right-wing People’s Party (PP), took part in a...
Latest polls show PP and Vox have lost some ground ahead of general election
Latest polls ahead of the general election in Spain due to be held on 23 July show that the country’s right-wing and far-right parties have...
Sánchez reiterates that the EU wants a deal on migrant policy by end of 2023
The EU wants an agreement in place by the end of 2023 on how to handle the thousands of migrants heading for the continent, despite...
Sánchez kicks off Spain’s EU presidency with visit to Ukraine to show ‘unequivocal support’
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Saturday that his visit to Kyiv on the first day of Spain’s EU presidency showed the bloc’s ‘unequivocal’...
Extremadura becomes third region of Spain to be jointly governed by PP & Vox
Spain’s right-wing People’s Party (PP) and the far-right Vox group said on Friday that they had reached a deal to jointly govern the Extremadura region...
