Election Day (again) – and ‘Catalan question’ dominates again
It’s Election Day across Spain (again) – and following on from the 28 April General Election the attention now turns to European, local and regional politics. Acting...
Pedro Sánchez
Oriol Junqueras greets Pedro Sánchez at Congress
Jailed former Catalan vice-president Oriol Junqueras, on temporary release for the opening of Spain’s Congress, took the opportunity to engage with acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro...
Batet and Cruz confirmed as Congress and Senate speakers
The Catalan Socialist (PSC) party’s most senior MP in Madrid Meritxell Batet has been voted speaker of Spain’s congress, while University of Barcelona professor Manuel...
Batet and Cruz to head Congress and Senate
Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has now put forward two Catalan Socialist politicians to head up Spain’s two chambers, the Congress and the Senate,...
Miquel Iceta’s bid to lead Senate blocked
The leader of the Catalan Socialists (PSC), Miquel Iceta, will not become the speaker of the Spanish Senate after the pro-independence parties in the Catalan...
Rubalcaba, former Spanish deputy PM, dies
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, the former Spanish deputy prime minster, interior minister and key figure of the Socialist (PSOE) party, died on Friday in Madrid after suffering...
Miquel Iceta proposed as speaker of Spanish Senate
The Catalan Socialists’ (PSC) leader Miquel Iceta is poised to become the new speaker of the Spanish Senate upon Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s...
Rivera offers Sánchez support for direct rule on Catalonia
As Spain’s acting Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has begun talks with other political parties in search of potential alliances that will allow his Socialist Party...
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...
PSOE hope to govern alone, without coalition
Spain’s acting deputy prime minister Carmen Calvo has said that the Socialists (PSOE) intend to remain a minority government despite needing support from other parties...
