Sánchez unlikely to form government until June
With Spain due to return to the polls on 26 May for the regional, local and European Parliament elections, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will be in no...
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Catalan Trial: Day 37 summary
Two members of the European Parliament (MEPs) gave testimony in the morning session of day 37 of the Catalan Trial, hailing Raül Romeva as a ‘defender of...
PSOE victory, PP decimated, Vox win 24 seats
The Socialist (PSOE) party of Pedro Sánchez has won the Spanish General Election (with 123 seats), but it will need to form an alliance in...
Exit poll puts Socialists as winners in Spain
The Socialist (PSOE) party has won the Spanish general election, according to an exit poll released at 8pm, as polling stations closed. The survey gives...
General Election focus: the Vox party
Spain has its own version of the far-right and the populist turned mainstream, part of a wave that has been surging through Europe: Vox, a...
General Election focus: the Ciudadanos (Cs) party
Opposing Catalonia’s independence as its main priority, the Ciudadanos (Cs) party (‘Citizens’ in English) is running in the 28 April general election on a message...
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...
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,...
