King Felipe instructs Pedro Sánchez to try and form a government
Spain’s King Felipe VI on Tuesday instructed the current acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez with trying to form a government, and thereby seek to also...
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The PP’s Alberto Núñez Feijóo loses first parliamentary vote to become PM
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the leader of the right-wing People’s Party (PP), saw his first bid to become Spain’s next prime minister rejected by the Spanish...
Puigdemont demands ‘amnesty’ for all independence activists as ‘precondition’ for Sánchez’s investiture
The exiled former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, demanded on Tuesday an amnesty for hundreds of activists facing legal action over a failed 2017 independence...
King Felipe instructs Feijóo to try and form government, yet without guaranteed support
King Felipe VI has instructed the leader of the right-wing People’s Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to try and form a government, despite not having...
Spain’s Aragón becomes 4th region to be jointly governed by PP & far-right Vox
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...
With Sánchez and Feijóo both claiming victory in the election … what happens next?
Report updated to include votes from Spaniards living abroad. Spain faces weeks, if not months, of a political gridlock following the general election held on...
Spain’s right-wing PP win the election, but not a majority, even with far-right Vox
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
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
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...
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...
