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Explainer: Why Wednesday’s marathon 12-hour debate could be a taste of things to come in Spain’s fragmented parliament

‘GROTESQUE’, a ‘humiliation’, a ‘dishonour’, and farcical. Those were just some of the adjectives used by the leader of Spain’s main opposition Partido Popular (PP),

11 Jan, 2024 @ 12:58

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Spain’s Pedro Sanchez announces VAT hike on electricity bills: Tax will rise to 10% and could more than double next year

Spain’s caretaker prime minister holds unprecedented meetings with Basque and Catalan separatists

SPAIN’S caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez took the unprecedented step on Friday of allowing himself to be photographed with representatives from two of the country’s

13 Oct, 2023 @ 15:54

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Valencia regional government to open probe into ‘dwarf bullfighting’ show authorised in early September

THE REGIONAL government in Valencia is to investigate a bullfighting festival after the line-up including so-called ‘dwarf bullfighters’, a form of ‘entertainment’ that is on

20 Sep, 2023 @ 11:11

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Campaigner Carla Antonelli becomes Spain’s first transsexual senator

SPANISH POLITICIAN Carla Antonelli is set to become the country’s first transexual senator, after the leftist party Mas Madrid announced it was designating her as

24 Jun, 2023 @ 14:15

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Spain’s prime minister and opposition leader clash over ETA in first face-to-face debate of the election campaign

AFTER a decades-long bloody campaign for an independent Basque Country, terrorist group ETA was officially dissolved in 2018. But the shadow of the organisation is

16 May, 2023 @ 19:15

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Irene Montero Presenta Un Proyecto Pa La Igualdad Efectiva Entre Hombres Y Mujeres En El Trabajo

Spain’s Socialist Party wins approval for reforms to controversial consent law, deepening split with coalition partners

LAWMAKERS in Spain’s lower house of parliament, the Congress of Deputies, today voted in favour of reforms to the controversial ‘only yes means yes’ consent

20 Apr, 2023 @ 16:11

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Spain moves closer to ban on ‘dwarf bullfights’ as law approved by Senate

SPAIN has taken a step closer to banning comedy bullfights where the human protagonists are dwarves, as well as erotic shows at stag or hen

19 Apr, 2023 @ 20:00

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Spain raises minimum wage, in move that could benefit 2.5 million people

SPANISH Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Tuesday that his government would once again raise the national minimum wage, the fifth time his Socialist Party-led

1 Feb, 2023 @ 15:45

Business & Finance·Lead

Spain passes controversial changes to sedition and misuse of funds laws in midst of constitutional crisis

THE SPANISH government’s controversial changes to the laws covering sedition and the misuse of public funds were approved by the Senate on Thursday, in the

23 Dec, 2022 @ 15:00

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Pedro Sanchez says court veto over appointing judges is ‘unprecedented’ in Spain’s democratic history

A crisis has erupted in Spain after the Constitutional Court(CGPJ) blocked the Senate from voting on a bill to change the way that judges are

20 Dec, 2022 @ 12:49

Crime & Law·Lead·National News·Politics

Pedro Sanchez gets his 2022 budget plans passed in Spain’s lower house of parliament

PRIME Minister, Pedro Sanchez, has seen his draft budget for 2022 approved by Spain’s lower house of parliament. Thursday’s Congress vote was a success for

25 Nov, 2021 @ 18:48

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