Far-right Vox seeks to make independence parties illegal
Spain’s far-right Vox party has submitted a draft bill to the Spanish Congress to amend the law on political parties, with the objective of making pro-independence...
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Pedro Sánchez still on course (just) to be voted in as PM
A fierce three-day debate commenced in the Spanish Congress on Saturday, with the Socialist (PSOE) leader and Spain’s acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez still on...
Quim Torra disqualified from Catalan presidency
Catalan president Quim Torra has said that he will not accept the order from the Spanish Electoral Authority (JEC) ordering that he must be disqualified from his post....
Gibraltar files criminal complaint against Spain’s far-right Vox party
The Gibraltar government has filed a criminal complaint in Madrid against four leaders of the Spanish far-right Vox party, for incitement to hatred. In the...
Clara Ponsatí’s lawyers seek to summon Sánchez and Rajoy to Edinburgh court
The defence team for Clara Ponsatí, the former Catalan education minister now living in Scotland and fighting extradition to Spain for her role in the 2017 Catalan...
Final results: PSOE win, far-right Vox 3rd largest party, Cs party decimated
The Socialists (PSOE) led by Pedro Sánchez won Spain’s fourth General Election in four years on Sunday, winning 120 seats (compared to 123 won in the April election), but...
One week before election, recent poll shows surge in far-right
One week before Spain’s fourth general election in four years, the polls are predicting that the PSOE socialist party will again win the most seats, but...
Franco removed, but ‘Francoism still very present’ argue many
‘Today, Spain is fulfilling its duty to itself,’ said acting Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, on Thursday, as the remains of the late dictator Francisco...
Carles Puigdemont’s sister denies ‘go-between’ claims
Carles Puigdemont, the former Catalan president, has suggested that the Spanish Judiciary is trying to embroil him in terrorism allegations in order to persuade Belgium...
Focus: Spain is trapped in political instability. The main reason? Catalonia
As Spain braces itself for its fourth general election in just as many years, one has to look at Catalonia and the Catalan independence movement...
