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There was no significant movement this week in the conflicting positions of the Socialist PSOE party and Unidas Podemos (UP) on how to form a government. The PSOE, under Pedro Sánchez, will present itself in investiture votes on 23 and 25 July but ne
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Spain goes to the polls again this Sunday, 26 May, for the second time in under a month. With the general election out of the way, this time it is a triple vote in some areas of the country for new councillors, new regional parliaments and Euro MPs. ... per cent international residents, where the PSOE leads a left-wing coalition. Expat candidates International candidates from the qualifying countries can also stand in the municipal election. When towns and villages from Estepona to Nerja published ... their local election lists, foreign names stood out across all of the political parties, from the left-wing Izquierda Unida, to the far-right Vox, and in around 30 of the province's municipalities. Thanks to a bilateral agreement signed by the UK and
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A. M. ROMERO
...votes each in the municipal election on 26 May after a paper in favour of the Socialist party was declared null and void due to cuts on either side. Unhappy with the decision by the Malaga Electoral Commission, the Socialists have taken the case to the
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ÁLVARO SOTO
Until last weekend Josep Borrell, currently Spain's acting foreign minister, had been the last person to head a Socialist party list in European elections when the party had won the biggest share of the vote. That was back in 2004 and last Sunday his
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FERNANDO TORRES
PP candidate Bartolomé Guerra will keep his job as mayor of the village of Tolox in the Sierra de las Nieves, after winning a tie-breaker draw held in Malaga city's court complex on Friday morning. Control over the local council was left to the luc
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E. CABEZAS
Following a very close election result in Vélez-Málaga, with no party winning an absolute majority, the leader of the Partido Popular (PP), Francisco Delgado Bonilla, has offered the opposition PSOE the opportunity to split the four-year term
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A court sentence, two clarification requests, various legal reports, an order to comply and a final ultimatum from a judge. All this was needed for a no-confidence vote in Alhaurín el Grande's mayor to be carried out that was started then stopped in
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The Socialist PSOE was the clear winner in Sunday's general election, gaining 123 seats of the total of 350 in the Spanish Congreso, a large increase on its previous 84 seats and just as the opinion polls had been predicting. What happens next? ... with the most votes when any absentions are ignored. Repeating the general election. If Pedro Sánchez isn't successful in those inital investiture votes, the constitutional clock starts ticking towards new elections, which would be held two months ... left-wing group Unidas Podemos, and the support of some of the minority regional groups, PSOE leader Pedro Sánchez is seemingly within easy reach of keeping his job as prime minister. Split on the right The other big news of election night was the
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Mark Nayler
Sánchez's caretaking government so focused on securing international roles when political chaos dominates at home. More than two months after a general election that gave no single party a majority, Spain's politicians are as far away from forming the next
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The Socialist PSOE was the clear winner in Sunday's general election, gaining 123 seats of the total of 350 in the Spanish Congreso, a dramatic increase on its previous 84 seats. This result, combined with the 42 seats obtained by the left-wing