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...
Podemos
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,...
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,...
Spain still divided after 80th anniversary of end of civil war
Spain has marked the 80th anniversary of the end of the 1936-39 civil war, after which began the dictatorship of Franco, with the country still divided...
Pablo Iglesias tries to unite Podemos ahead of elections
Spain’s left-wing Podemos party has launched its campaign for next month’s elections with its leader Pablo Iglesias trying to reunite the party, whilst returning to...
Pedro Sánchez calls general election for 28 April
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced a general election for 28 April – the third in less than four years, after his draft budget was...
A ‘political trial’, ‘act of vengeance’, ‘outrageous’
The trial of pro-independence leaders in the Spanish Supreme Court is ‘shameful,’ ‘painful’ and ‘outrageous’ according to several political leaders, speaking to the press at...
