Opinion
Mark Nayler
...potentially unprecedented influx of migrants? With his eye on the 2020 general election, Sánchez is trying to increase support for Spain's Socialist party. So far, he's succeeding: the PSOE has leapt from fourth to first place in opinion polls in just three
LifeStyle
Debbie Bartlett
...until his death in 1975, so the transition to democracy and restoration of the monarchy was an exciting but still very tense and uncertain period. This was the first democratic election since February 1936, before the Civil War, and it was difficult to ... For the upper house, the Senate, there was to be a majority electoral system with open lists and 207 seats, of which up to 41 could be designated by the King. Turnout for this all-important election was 78.8 per cent, and would probably have been ... general election in Spain since. When the results came in, Adolfo Suárez's UCD party had won the highest number of seats, 165 of the 350, and he became Spain's first democratically elected prime minister after the dictatorship. The second party was
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In the end Mariano Rajoy was praised by both political friends and enemies for the way he swiftly announced that he will be standing aside from the leadership of the conservative PP party. I am going “because it is best for me, best for the PP and be
Opinion
Mark Nayler
...centrist newcomer Ciudadanos would win if a general election were held today, with 29.1% of the vote. Leftist alliance Unidos Podemos would come second with 19.8% and the ruling Conservative Popular Party (PP) third with 19.5%. Prime minister Mariano ... of 26% in 2013. Indeed, the Conservatives' pledge to reduce the jobless rate has been their other election-winning mantra: half a million new jobs a year, says Rajoy, is the amount required to return the Spanish workforce to health. Most of the new ... starts heeding the concerns of the electorate, it stands no chance of winning the 2020 general election.
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Political parties in Catalonia are in the final stages of campaigning for the election to the regional parliament next Thursday, 21 December. Recent opinion polls have shown that the combined votes of the pro-independence parties would give them ... the largest bloc of MPs but just short of an overall majority. The regional election was called after the national government intervened in October when regional MPs in the last parliament passed an illegal declaration of independence. None of the
Local
Ivan Gelibter
The two ruling parties on Mijas council have added the all-important support of the one councillor belonging to the Podemos party to secure a pact to bring stability to the town hall until the end of the current legislature in May next year. The so
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The leader of the PSOE socialist party, Pedro Sánchez, increased the pressure on the conservative PP government this week to reach a quick agreement on spending plans for this year or call a general election. Mariano's Rajoy's government has still ... election, but says he will negotiate hard with Rajoy, especially on pensions.
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The two main pro-independence groups taking part in regional elections planned for Catalonia on 21 December have ruled out including a policy of unilateral independence in their forthcoming election programmes. Junts per Catalunya and ERC are to ... more radical separatist CUP party will keep its UDI policy. Spanish PM, Mariano Rajoy, said this week that his government would work with whoever won the regional election providing the new administration “governed and respected the law and
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RAMÓN GORRIARÁN
If a general election were held in Spain tomorrow, the ruling conservative Partido Popular (PP) would still be the largest party in the national parliament but only just, according to latest data from official pollsters CIS. The survey, conducted ... from 1-10 April, shows that the PP vote has declined from 33 per cent in the 2016 general election to 24 per cent today. The main beneficiary of the negative change in the PP has been the centrist Ciudadanos party, which would be the second largest
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An estimated 45,000 people marched in Brussels on Thursday in support of Catalan independence. Protesters were seeking to raise awareness across Europe of their demands and what they see as repression from Spain. So far the European Union, based i