Tag: Popular Party - Spain

• 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.

• 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, October 22nd 2012 - 03:04 UTC

  Landslides for Rajoy in Galicia but Basques raise the question of ‘independence’

  

  Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy conservative Popular Party on Sunday retained power in his home region of Galicia despite recession and biting austerity measures, official results showed.