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

News Desk13th May 202420th May 2024

13th May 202420th May 20241818

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

22nd April 202427th April 20244040

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

5th August 202316th August 20233877

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

23rd July 202328th July 20233991

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

14th July 202327th July 20232372

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...

Latest polls show PP and Vox have lost some ground ahead of general election

News Desk6th July 202318th July 2023

6th July 202318th July 20233927

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...

Sumar’s Yolanda Díaz vows to give all 18 year olds a ‘universal inheritance’ of €20,000

News Desk4th July 202310th July 2023

4th July 202310th July 20234564

Spain’s current Labour Minister and the second deputy prime minister, Yolanda Díaz – a candidate to become prime minister in the forthcoming 23 July general...

Gender violence becomes key issue in PP-Vox pacts ahead of 23 July election

News Desk25th June 20234th July 2023

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Gender violence, and whether it even exists, has become the key issue in the possible pacts between the right-wing People’s Party (PP) and far-right Vox...

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