Tag: Socialists

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Spanish coalition government in the making between Socialists and Podemos

  

  Spain's Socialists and far-left Unidas Podemos party agreed on the basis of a coalition government on Tuesday, just two days after a parliamentary election delivered a highly fragmented parliament.

• Monday, April 29th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Socialists win the most votes in Spain but now must try and work a coalition

  

  Spain’s Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez, fresh from a win for his party in national elections on Sunday, said the only conditions he would place on forming a coalition government would be respecting the constitution and promoting social justice.  

• Thursday, February 21st 2019 - 08:38 UTC

  Corbyn tells Labour quitters they should “resign and put themselves up for election”

  

  Labour MPs who have quit the party should “resign and put themselves up for election”, Jeremy Corbyn has said. In a Twitter video, the Labour leader said it was the “democratic thing to do” because they wanted to “abandon the policies on which they were elected”.

• Monday, January 7th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Bolsonaro in the process of purging some 3.300 federal staff allegedly communists or socialists

  

  The new government in Brazil, headed by President Jair Bolsonaro, has initiated the process of firing any “communists” and “socialists” working as contractors in government departments contending those holding opposition ideological views cannot properly execute its goals.

• Wednesday, September 12th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Brazilian equities and currency slump on Tuesday on latest opinion polls

  

  Brazilian equities and currencies slumped on Tuesday after an opinion poll on the presidential election showed leftist candidates gaining ground while market-friendly centrists did not.