Tag: Pedro Sanchez PSOE

• Saturday, January 11th 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  New Spanish government takes oath of office next Monday: outstanding names in the cabinet

  

  Women experts and radical leftists looked set to play a dominant role in Spain's new coalition government as Pedro Sanchez on Friday named a senior global trade expert as his top diplomat.

• Wednesday, January 8th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Spain finally has a government: a coalition which includes a Catalan separatist group

  

  Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez won the narrowest of victories in Parliament on Tuesday to take power for a second term in Spain with the backing of the anti-austerity party Podemos and a Catalan separatist group.

• Monday, November 11th 2019 - 11:11 UTC

  Spanish elections: hung parliament and the extreme right doubles seats

  

  Spain's Socialists have won the country’s fourth general election in as many years, but without an absolute majority. The PSOE, led by acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, has taken just 120 seats out of a possible 350 – three less than the April 28 election, while the extreme right Vox party doubled its number of seats

• Wednesday, September 18th 2019 - 13:56 UTC

  Spanish King calls for new elections Nov. 10 after no deal with political leaders

  

  After a meeting Tuesday with Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and other political leaders, Spain's King Philip VI realised no negotiated solution was available to form a government and chose to call for general elections to be held November 10, it was announced. Spain is the fourth-largest economy in the euro currency zone.

• Thursday, May 9th 2019 - 06:52 UTC

  What could dilute the EU, populism or the lack of a unifying external threat?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - For the second time in a month, a member country of the European Union has NOT voted a populist into power. Could it be that the populist wave has broken?

• Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 - 09:06 UTC

  Catalonia’s secession surfaces again in Spanish debate ahead of Sunday elections

  

  Spain's outgoing prime minister faced an onslaught of criticism on Monday from his right-wing rivals over Catalonia's secession crisis in a testy four-way debate ahead of elections, while he warned them against cosying up to the far-right.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2018 - 06:11 UTC

  Catalonia protest President Sanchez decision to lead his weekly cabinet meeting in Barcelona

  

  Thousands of pro-independence protesters angry about Spain’s cabinet holding a meeting in Catalonia have blocked roads across the region and clashed with anti-riot police in its capital. Grassroots separatist groups and unions called the protests to show their disgust at Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s decision to lead his weekly cabinet meeting in Barcelona.

• Thursday, December 13th 2018 - 07:07 UTC

  Spain's minimum wage will increase by 22% in 2019, announces PM Sanchez

  

  Spain's minimum wage will jump by 22% in 2019 - the largest annual increase in more than 40 years. It means millions of low-paid workers could see a pay rise from €736 ($835; £665) to €900, effective from January. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced the increase on Wednesday, declaring “a rich country cannot have poor workers”.

• Monday, December 3rd 2018 - 07:34 UTC

  Far right party wins seats in Andalusia: first time since the death of Franco in 1975

  

  A far-right party has won seats in a Spanish regional election for the first time since the country's military dictatorship ended in 1975. The Vox party took 12 parliamentary seats in Andalusia on Sunday, beating expectations that it would win five.

• 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.