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...them will be luxury properties, and this will make the municipality the leader in terms of luxury accommodation in Andalucía. With the new PGOU plan, Benahavís also becomes one of the municipalities in Malaga province with the most land for public
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Unicaja put two straight defeats to Gran Canaria and Cedevita Zagreb behind them by beating league leaders Real Madrid 82-78 on Sunday evening. The result gave Unicaja a much needed boost ahead of the Copa del Rey quarter-final against F.C. Barcelo
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...was not far from people's minds. In Chile on Monday he praised that country's efforts to come to terms with the dictatorship of Augustus Pinochet and a national museum on the subject. In Bolivia, leader Evo Morales promised that, despite
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Members of Spain's Socialist party, PSOE, have put their former leader, Pedro Sánchez, back in the role of secretary general. In Sunday's primary election, in which more than 74,000 socialists voted, Sánchez gained over 50% of support, ahead of his ... government and forced a third general election. Rather than give in to the party heavyweights and abstain in Rajoy's investiture vote in October last year Sánchez resigned from his seat and from his position as party leader. Since then the PSOE has been
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...national leader of the radical left-wing Podemos party, Pablo Iglesias.
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Susana Díaz, regional PSOE leader and current acting president of the Junta de Andalucía, was clearly shocked by the election result on Sunday night. Speaking to supporters at her party's campaign base in Seville, she claimed little personal ... stressed that she was still leader of the largest party in Andalucía and had the right to try to form the next regional government. The poor PSOE result was also a blow to the central government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, as it was the first test
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Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, son of the former leader of Catalonia, Jordi Pujol i Soley, was held indefinitely without bail on Tuesday after a judge decided that he was at risk of continuing to commit offences and destroying evidence. With so many large
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Trocadero Marbella Rugby Club are making their presence known to the early leaders. The Costa del Sol side gave a masterclass in attack with a commanding 46-8 win over Unión de Rugby Almería who, even with their latest recruits, couldn't match the ho
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Former leader, Pedro Sánchez, and Patxi López are also to stand.
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The former president of Catalonia, Artur Mas, has been banned from public office for two years by a Barcelona court for his part in the organisation of an independence referendum held in November 2014. Two other former regional ministers were also ba
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...fomer leader, Mariano Rajoy, and Pablo Casado, closer to the right wing of the party. Despite their differences, both were in good spirits at a dinner on Tuesday. The election process follows accounts of widespread corruption within PP, as its ... position as the country's leading party became untenable. A new leader is set to be chosen before the end of July.
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Amid this week's tensions between the United States and its allies at the NATO summit in Brussels, Donald Trump and Spain's new prime minister, Pedro Sánchez had the first opportunity to shake hands. As is the concensus between the other NATO count
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The first formal meeting between the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and the pro-independence president of the Catalan regional government, Quim Torra, took place in Madrid on Monday. Held at the new PM's official residence, La Moncloa, the talks we
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CHARLOTTE WAY
...in North Africa against Rif leader Abd el-Krim, yet proceeded to play a crucial role in the Spanish Civil War on the rebel side, and, more recently, has been involved in operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Southern Lebanon. Francisco Franco served
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SUR MARBELLA
Trocadero Marbella pushed Liceo Francés de Madrid to the limit despite a 17-22 home loss to the league leaders. The hosts also had to deal with a sending off, which was shown to one of their players after he received a second yellow card. The lea
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Spanish offence of rebellion. It had been hoped by the Spanish Supreme Court that Germany would compare its own offence of high treason to that of rebellion, and so agree to return Puigdemont to Spain on a more serious charge. The Catalan leader has been
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...in order to form a new government. The PSOE is aiming to improve its terms from last time to tempt in UP with 300 measures to agree a "cooperation" government, and not the coalition government that UP leader Pablo Iglesias is demanding. On
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The Socialist party leader Pedro Sánchez has become Spain's new prime minister after a majority of MPs supported the vote of no confidence on Friday, toppling the ruling Partido Popular party (PP) and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Sánchez ... of Mariano Rajoy before the vote had been the only option remaining to stop PSOE Socialist party leader Pedro Sánchez becoming prime minister. Rajoy refused to resign despite pleas from Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera to go before the vote succeeded.
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Mark Nayler
I wrote here last week that acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez seemed to be the only Spanish politician willing to work through the summer to resolve Spain's political deadlock. I spoke too soon, because on Saturday the PSOE leader headed to ... beginning of September. Top of the priority list for the PSOE leader will be talks with Pablo Iglesias, secretary general of the Socialists' potential leftist ally Unidas Podemos (UP). It's hard to believe, though, that the upcoming round of negotiations ... leader's reluctance is understandable. Not only are the Socialists more centrist than UP on economics, the latter party only possesses 42 seats in congress - hardly enough to justify the possession of weighty ministerial roles (and much less than the PSOE's
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The first telephone call from newly re-elected leader of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, to prime minister Mariano Rajoy was about the Catalonian government’s threat to stage an unauthorised independence referendum. The opposition leader has clashed
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Leaving behind the Desfiladero de los Gaitanes gorge and the Caminito del Rey walkway, one approaches the remains of Bobastro. This location in Ardales was firstly the refuge and later the general headquarters of Omar ben Hafsún's rebellion against t
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Mark Nayler
...the new PP leader obtained a Master's degree without going to class or taking exams; a judge is currently investigating whether his claims to the qualification are fraudulent. Hardly what you want of a politician tasked with updating and cleansing a
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This Sunday, 21 May, sees the primary elections for the new leader of the PSOE socialist party. Party members will choose between three candidates for the position, which has been vacant since last October. A conference in June will ratify the ... decision. Taking part in a leadership debate this week were Susana Díaz, president of the Junta de Andalucía, Patxi López, former speaker in parliament and Pedro Sánchez, former party leader. Díaz and Sánchez are the two favourite candidates with opposed
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Mark Nayler
Is there no end to the woes of Spain's ruling Popular Party (PP)? It has emerged that Cristina Cifuentes, leader of the conservative PP in Madrid, obtained a master's degree from Rey Juan Carlos University (URCJ) under questionable circumstances.
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The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, reminded Theresa May in a telephone conversation on Thursday that the EU will negotiate Brexit as a united front, government sources said. The British prime minister telephoned her Spanish counterpart on T
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...his former coach at Deportivo La Coruña, Víctor Sánchez del Amo. "Víctor believes that I have the qualities to be a real leader in this group," he said on his presentation on Wednesday. Rodríguez, a product of the Real Madrid academy and famously
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Three Nigerian men belonging to a large human-trafficking network have been arrested by National Police. One of whom is believed to be the leader of the group. The gang are thought to have smuggled people from Nigeria into Spain and other parts of ... leader of the group, Evo Rabel, was arrested in Morocco and is accused of forcing women into prostitution as well as being the person who controlled the movement of the women across the Strait of Gibraltar. The other two men supposedly led operations
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Julio Rodríguez Marbella
Marbella could only manage a 1-1 draw at home to La Roda on Sunday, leaving them three points behind leaders Lorca, who earned a 1-0 victory away at San Fernando. The heavy rain had a major influence on the first half, and it was La Roda who adapt
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New prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has named a female- dominated cabinet with some innovative other choices in his first week in the job. Sánchez, leader of the PSOE Socialist party, dramatically ousted Mariano Rajoy of the Partido Popular (PP) in ... first.However the minority PSOE party was able to gather the votes of the fragmented smaller political groups to reach a majority of 180 MPs in favour versus 169 against. Mariano Rajoy quits as party head and PP begins search for next leader Smaller ... 2018 national budget only a few days earlier. Only Ciudadanos maintained support for conservative leader. Rajoy, who had decided not to stand down as PM ahead of the no-confidence vote, left the chamber immediately after last Friday's decision and
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"We've come to London to share the message of a grand and hospitable city: one that is attractive, like few in the world, to live in, to invest in and to work in." With these words the mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, opened his speech to a gr
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...city in the UK. The proposal was made during a visit by Socialist representatives to Macharaviaya last week, which is where de Gálvez was born in 1746. He was a military leader who fought against the British during the American War of Independence and
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The leader of the Socialist PSOE party and acting prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has once again blamed opposition parties for the failure of his investiture as new prime minister. He has asked them for "responsibility" and "reflection" to help
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Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy has revealed how the government proposes to use article 155 of the Constitution to intervene in Catalonia to curb the regional government's independence drive. RELATED NEWS Rajoy prepares to intervene i
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...had postponed Tuesday's planned debate in Barcelona over who should be the next regional president. As reported last week, Carles Puigdemont, as leader of the largest separatist party, had been proposed as the only candidate to head the Catalan
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Mark Nayler
...come from Vox leader Santiago Abascal. Abascal also expressed his support for Salvini's hardline stance: a member of the populist Northern League party (in many ways Vox's Italian counterpart), Italy's deputy prime minister has repeatedly called for an ... Socialist leader seems unwilling to ask hard questions about the extent that Spain's welfare system can cope with steadily rising immigration levels. For this reason, his plan to eradicate a minimum residency period for undocumented immigrants' access to
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Puigdemont, is leader of Junts per Catalunya, the biggest separatist party after December's election, but he is still in Belgium along with five of his ex-ministers. If they return to Spain they face certain arrest over the investigation into the illegal ... isn't clear if Puigdemont would then return to be arrested or a day-to-day stand-in would be appointed while he stayed away. Another controversial scenario debated is that Oriol Junqueras. leader of ERC, the second largest secessionist party, is sworn
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Mark Nayler
leader of the Socialists, the party with the largest share of the public vote in Spain, it's Sánchez's responsibility to try and form the country's next government. But that responsibility also falls to the heads of the other main groups. It is their ... would have a parliamentary majority, which you'd think would be incentive enough to start negotiating. Yet since April 28th the latter party's leader, Albert Rivera, has failed to approach Sánchez, instead sticking to his line that the Socialist leader
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The new road connecting the hospital in Torre del Mar and the Juan Carlos I avenue is 90 per cent complete and set to open soon, according to Diputación leader, Elías Bendodo, and Vélez-Málaga councillors, who visited the site last Friday. The road
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Agustín Peláez
The leader of the opposition party at Vélez-Málaga town hall, Francisco Delgado, has asked for a report on the training volunteer security staff were given before last week's Holy Week processions in the town. He has accused the current mayor,