Regional Elections Archives - Spain in English

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

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

News Desk6th July 202318th July 2023

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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

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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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