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Spain’s main opposition party, the PP, open to working with far-right Vox if elected

News Desk30th December 20255th January 2026

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Spain’s right-wing opposition leader said on Monday that he would be willing to reach occasional agreements with the far-right Vox party to secure parliamentary backing...

Spain’s main opposition party claims the ruling socialists are in ‘irreversible decline’

News Desk23rd December 202529th December 2025

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Spain’s main right-wing opposition party said on Monday that the governing socialists (PSOE) are in ‘irreversible decline’, following a heavy defeat in a regional election...

PM Sánchez dismisses calling early elections: ‘It’s an honour to govern even in these circumstances’

News Desk16th December 202522nd December 2025

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday reaffirmed what he described as his socialist (PSOE) government’s ‘absolute’ commitment to feminism, as a series of sexual...

Puigdemont will still seek to become Catalan president, despite ‘pro-Spain win’

News Desk13th May 202420th May 2024

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Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont said on Monday that he would seek to form a pro-independence minority government in Catalonia despite a weekend electoral setback which...

Basque elections: PNV survives rise of EH Bildu, and retains absolute majority with PSE-EE

News Desk22nd April 202427th April 2024

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The separatist left-wing coalition EH Bildu celebrated a historic result in the Basque Country’s regional elections on Sunday, but it won’t be enough for them...

Spain’s Aragón becomes 4th region to be jointly governed by PP & far-right Vox

News Desk5th August 202316th August 2023

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Spain’s right-wing People’s Party (PP) and the far-right Vox group agreed on Friday to form a coalition in the region of Aragón, following the 28...

Spain’s right-wing PP win the election, but not a majority, even with far-right Vox

News Desk23rd July 202328th July 2023

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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

News Desk20th July 202324th July 2023

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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

News Desk14th July 202327th July 2023

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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

News Desk11th July 202324th July 2023

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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...

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