Casado opens door to governing with far-right Vox
The head of Spain’s main right-wing People’s Party (PP) has opened the door to forming a government with the far-right Vox party, should right-wing parties win...
People’s Party (PP)
General Election focus: the Podemos party
The left-wing Unidas Podemos party (‘United We Can’ in English), could end up playing a major role in deciding who gets to be the next Spanish...
General Election focus: the PP party
After decades of undisputed hegemony among right-wing voters in Spain, the People’s Party (PP) is fighting to put down growing right-wing (and far-right) rivalry ahead of...
General Election focus: the PSOE party
With the Spanish General Election this Sunday 28 April, the ruling PSOE party (the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) will be heading to the polls in a fight...
Clash over Catalonia in election TV debate
The Catalonia crisis and independence was at the centre of the Spanish election’s first televised debate, on the public TVE channel on Monday evening. No Catalan...
Catalan issue continues to set General Election agenda
With two TV election debates on Monday and Tuesday this week, Catalonia continues to be a major issue for all parties running in the Spanish general election,...
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...
PP candidate: ‘Do you really say yes, yes, yes until the end?’
The People’s Party (PP) candidate in Catalonia, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, sparked a controversy with her comments on sexual consent during a Spanish TV election debate....
Spanish election campaign: ‘political police’, Catalonia & far-right
The campaigns for the 28 April Spanish general election kicked off on Friday morning with several events being held by political groups on Thursday night,...
