Spanish minister says Israel’s Netanyahu should be investigated for war crimes
Ione Belarra, the leader of Spain’s left-wing Podemos party and the current acting minister of social rights, has called on the acting coalition government to petition...
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Right-wing and far-right politicians join thousands in anti-amnesty rally in Barcelona
Right-wing and far-right politicians in Spain joined a mass rally in Barcelona on Sunday to protest plans to grant Catalan pro-independence activists and politicians an...
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...
After Feijóo fails in his bid to become Spain’s prime minister, what happens next?
With Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s bid to become Spain’s prime minister definitively over after Friday’s second vote, socialist leader Pedro Sánchez, currently the acting prime minister...
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...
Rally against Catalan amnesty, ahead of Feijóo facing ‘doomed’ investiture vote
Tens of thousands of supporters of Spain’s current opposition right-wing People’s Party (PP), led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, rallied in Madrid on Sunday against the possible plans...
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...
Yolanda Díaz ‘looks for democratic solutions via dialogue’ with Puigdemont in Brussels
Spain’s acting deputy prime minister and labour minister, Yolanda Díaz, who is also the head of the left-wing Sumar group of parties, went to Brussels...
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...
Socialist candidate Armengol elected as parliament speaker – seen as step to Sánchez securing re-election
Francina Armengol, the candidate proposed by Spain’s PSOE socialist party, was elected by MPs as the parliament’s new speaker on Thursday morning, which has been...
