Tag: Mariano Rajoy

• Friday, January 14th 2022 - 20:13 UTC

  Former Spanish PMs support dialogue between Argentina, UK over Falklands

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday thanked former Spanish Prime Ministers for their support to resuming dialogue with the United Kingdom over the Falklands / Malvinas issue.

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 06:48 UTC

  “Mr. Rajoy your time is up”, Socialist Sanchez calls for the resignation of the conservative leader

  

  Spain’s Partido Popular government appeared doomed last night to lose a no-confidence vote in parliament, with the centre-left PSOE poised to take power. A Basque nationalist party’s decisive announcement that it would vote in favor of the motion spelled the almost certain end of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s mandate and foretold the stunning collapse of his minority government in a parliamentary vote today Friday, when it will be short of support to survive.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2018 - 08:18 UTC

  Political storm in Spain: congress will subject PM Rajoy to a no confidence vote this week

  

  Spanish lawmakers have agreed to subject Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to a vote of no confidence this week. It comes in the wake of graft convictions of businesspeople and officials tied to his conservative Popular Party (PP).

• Saturday, May 26th 2018 - 08:46 UTC

  Countdown for Rajoy's government: call for fresh elections

  

  Spanish opposition parties have launched a fierce campaign to end the conservative government of Mariano Rajoy after courts ruled that his Partido Popular profited from a large kickbacks-for-contracts scheme. The Socialist opposition announced a vote of no confidence against the prime minister with the backing of anti-establishment and left-wing parties, while the pro-business Ciudadanos (Citizens) – which had supported the conservative minority government until now – urged Mr Rajoy to call a fresh election.

• Friday, May 25th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

  Blow to Rajoy: 29 members of the ruling party convicted for corruption

  

  A Spanish court has issued hefty prison sentences for politicians and business people involved in a kickbacks-for-contracts scheme that helped fund Spain’s governing party. The National Court’s decision is a major blow for Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s Partido Popular, fined 245,000 Euros because it benefited from the illegal scheme that was in place between 1999 and 2005.

• Wednesday, May 23rd 2018 - 08:33 UTC

  Spanish left wing leader takes heavy flack for purchasing a 600.000 Euro mansion

  

  Accusations of hypocrisy have rained down on the couple that heads Spain's far-left Podemos party for buying a 600,000-Euro luxury home with a swimming pool after previously condemning such extravagance. The purchase caused unease among the rank and file of Podemos, which was formed in 2014 to represent “the people” against “the caste” -- as it called the country's political and business elites -- and there are fears it could cost the party at the ballot box.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2018 - 08:19 UTC

  Congress members from Spain's ruling party divided on the Gibraltar question

  

  Internal divisions on Gibraltar within Spain’s ruling Partido Popular have been laid bare in two versions of a parliamentary motion to be debated in the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Spanish Senate on Thursday.

• Sunday, March 25th 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  Rajoy suggests future dialogue with Gibraltar

  

  Spain will not use the Brexit negotiations to pursue its sovereignty aspirations, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Thursday during a press conference in which he also appeared to signal his government’s readiness to engage in dialogue with Gibraltar.

• Friday, January 26th 2018 - 09:31 UTC

  Venezuela expels Spanish ambassador: Madrid expected to reciprocate

  

  Venezuela has expelled the Spanish ambassador to Caracas, Jesús Silva Fernández, accusing him of interfering in its internal affairs. Spain has rejected the allegations and said it would reciprocate.

• Friday, January 19th 2018 - 10:01 UTC

  Catalonia parliament speaker in round of talks to decide on Puigdemont's future

  

  The new pro-independence speaker of Catalonia's parliament on Thursday started meeting party representatives to pick a regional president, with exiled former leader Carles Puigdemont in the lead for the post.