Tag: PSOE Party Spain

• Monday, July 15th 2024 - 22:02 UTC

  Uruguayan presidential candidate meets with Spanish PM

  

  Uruguayan Presidential hopeful Yamandú Orsi met Monday with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez at the Spanish Worker Socialist Party (PSOE) headquarters in Madrid to discuss matters concerning the global left in a move to “promote the exchange of experiences and strategies,” according to Montevideo outlets.

• 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.

• Thursday, May 5th 2016 - 11:57 UTC

  Spanish elections campaign for a new parliament takes off 10 June

  

  Spain's King Felipe VI signed the decree dissolving parliament following December's inconclusive general election. As no political parties were able to coalesce their support into a coalition government in time for the deadline, new elections will be held on June 26.

• Thursday, March 10th 2016 - 03:59 UTC

  Spain's Socialists would continue “dialogue and friendship” with Gibraltar even with Brexit

  

  Spain’s Socialist party would continue to advocate “dialogue and friendship” with Gibraltar even if the UK voted to leave the European Union, the PSOE’s MP for Cádiz said during a visit to the Rock.

• Monday, December 21st 2015 - 07:14 UTC

  Spain's left-right draw ends two-party system and marks time of coalitions

  

  Spain is heading for a period of difficult coalition-building after Sunday’s elections in which Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservatives came first, but were far short of a majority and with no obvious coalition partner after the centrist Ciudadanos (Citizens) did worse than expected, finishing fourth.

• Saturday, December 19th 2015 - 02:43 UTC

  Rajoy rejects the idea of a grand coalition, German style, after Sunday's vote

  

  Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Friday rejected any idea of his ruling Popular Party (PP) trying to form a grand coalition with the main opposition Socialist Party (PSOE) after Sunday's general election, in a bid to stop emerging political forces Podemos and Ciudadanos from entering government.

• 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.