Casado opens door to governing with far-right Vox
The head of Spain’s main right-wing People’s Party (PP) has opened the door to forming a government with the far-right Vox party, should right-wing parties win...
Spain General Election
General Election focus: the Podemos party
The left-wing Unidas Podemos party (‘United We Can’ in English), could end up playing a major role in deciding who gets to be the next Spanish...
General Election focus: the PP party
After decades of undisputed hegemony among right-wing voters in Spain, the People’s Party (PP) is fighting to put down growing right-wing (and far-right) rivalry ahead of...
General Election focus: the PSOE party
With the Spanish General Election this Sunday 28 April, the ruling PSOE party (the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) will be heading to the polls in a fight...
Clash over Catalonia in election TV debate
The Catalonia crisis and independence was at the centre of the Spanish election’s first televised debate, on the public TVE channel on Monday evening. No Catalan...
Catalan issue continues to set General Election agenda
With two TV election debates on Monday and Tuesday this week, Catalonia continues to be a major issue for all parties running in the Spanish general election,...
Political tension ahead of TV electoral debates
The president of Spain’s People’s Party (PP), Pablo Casado, has said that the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, ‘is only right when he amends’ previous decisions,...
Jordi Sànchez: ‘Nothing we’ve seen in our trial justifies prison’
The main candidate in the forthcoming elections for the pro-independence Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) candidacy, Jordi Sànchez, one of the defendants in the on-going Catalan trial, has...
PP candidate: ‘Do you really say yes, yes, yes until the end?’
The People’s Party (PP) candidate in Catalonia, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, sparked a controversy with her comments on sexual consent during a Spanish TV election debate....
No election rallies or debates in prison for Catalans on trial
The Spanish Government has turned down a petition from jailed Catalan pro-independence politicians currently on trial and running in Spain’s forthcoming general election, from holding...
