Tag: Mariano Rajoy

Tuesday, December 15th 2015 - 06:56 UTC
Spain's electoral debate dominated by corruption accusations

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was accused of being unfit to govern by his socialist challenger Pedro Sanchez on Monday night in an unusually ferocious election debate held before this week's general election. Sanchez performance makes him a first line contender for highest office in Spain, even if Rajoy's party as forecasted wins the election
Tuesday, December 15th 2015 - 06:41 UTC
Spain's Rajoy expected to win next Sunday's election but without a majority

The latest surveys on the Spanish legislative elections to be held next Sunday, predict a victory for the ruling center-right People's Party, or PP, but without an absolute majority, so the party will have to form a coalition to establish a government.
Tuesday, December 1st 2015 - 08:19 UTC
Spanish minister anticipates 'spectacular' relationship with Macri government

Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo became on Sunday the first foreign official to be received by president-elect Mauricio Macri after he won the November 22 runoff election, and announced a new 'spectacular' era is beginning in Madrid’s relations with Argentina.
Tuesday, November 10th 2015 - 05:56 UTC
Rajoy says “Catalonia is not going anywhere, nothing is going to break”

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced on Monday his government would file an appeal with the Constitutional Court to ensure that an independence declaration backed by the Catalan regional parliament has “no consequences”, he told a news conference.
Thursday, October 1st 2015 - 08:31 UTC
A homage, ‘Keep calm and carry on’

By Alex Salmond (*) - I do not know if Artur Mas, the president of Catalonia, deliberately chose the eclipse of the super-moon as the day on which to hold the most important election in Catalonia’s democratic history.
Monday, September 7th 2015 - 09:59 UTC
“For a more competitive Europe”

Prime Minister and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy wrote an article for the Spanish newspaper Expansión on competiveness.
Monday, June 15th 2015 - 04:59 UTC
Left-wing coalitions take power in Spain's main cities including Madrid and Barcelona

Left-wing coalitions formally took power in four out of five of Spain's biggest cities on Sunday, marking a major political change in municipal politics a month after voters registered their anger at austerity and corruption in local elections.
Monday, May 25th 2015 - 07:47 UTC
Spaniards are furious and 'traditional parties' get beaten in regional elections

Spain's ruling People's Party (PP) took a battering on Sunday's regional and local elections after voters punished Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy for four years of severe spending cuts and a string of corruption scandals. In a test of the national mood ahead of general elections expected in November, the PP suffered its worst result in more than 20 years to herald an uncertain era of coalition as new parties rose to fragment the vote.
Monday, April 20th 2015 - 23:12 UTC
Rajoy admits the Rato case impacts on his party's support ahead of elections

Voters in Spain's Valencia region, a bastion of conservatism for two decades, are likely to desert Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's party in droves in May's regional election, a poll published on Sunday found, in a taste of nationwide politics to come.
Friday, February 6th 2015 - 23:36 UTC
Anti-austerity Podemos party becomes Spain's second party and political option

Spain’s anti-austerity left-wingers Podemos would come in second, ahead of the Socialist party (PSOE), if general elections were held today, a polling firm declared this week, as the party, barely one year old, continues its surge in popularity.