Latest polls show PP and Vox have lost some ground ahead of general election
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...
Regional Elections
Sumar’s Yolanda Díaz vows to give all 18 year olds a ‘universal inheritance’ of €20,000
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
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...
Socialist Jaume Collboni becomes the new Barcelona mayor
Jaume Collboni, the Catalan socialist (PSC) candidate for the city of Barcelona in the 28 May local elections, has become the mayor of Spain’s second city, despite...
Spain’s PP unites with far-right Vox to govern Valencia region in a coalition
Spain’s right-wing People’s Party (PP) and the far-right Vox party reached a deal on Tuesday to govern the region of Valencia in a tie-up that...
Spain’s right-wing make significant gains in local and regional elections
LATEST: Pedro Sánchez announces General Election for Sunday 23 July. Spain’s People’s Party (PP), the main right-wing opposition group, made significant gains in Sunday’s local and regional...
Former mayor Xavier Trias wins in Barcelona, but can he become mayor again?
Trias per Barcelona, the Catalan pro-independence group of former Barcelona mayor, Xavier Trias, won 11 seats in the city’s council elections on Sunday, ahead of the Catalan Socialists (PSC)...
Alleged vote-buying scheme in Spain’s Melilla exclave, just days ahead of elections
Spain’s north African exclave of Melilla has been rocked by an alleged mail-in vote-buying scheme just days before the city goes to the polls in...
Spain’s far-right Vox seek to make gains in 28 May local and regional elections
Spain’s third largest political group in the national parliament, the far-right Vox party, is looking to make gains in the local and regional elections due to...
Opinion: three women in Spanish politics – No.1 Ada Colau: agent of change
‘For the past eight years, Barcelona mayor Ada Colau and her council have been attempting to drag the city into the 21st century.’ In the first...
