Tag: Spain election

• Monday, May 29th 2023 - 19:50 UTC

  General election in Spain in July following the disastrous showing for Socialists in regional voting; Mercosur alert

  

  Spain is set to hold an early general election on July 23, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced on Monday. The announcement comes after Sanchez Socialist Party suffered serious setbacks to the conservative opposition in regional elections held on Sunday.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Spain votes on Sunday: Catalonia and a possible repeat of a hung parliament

  

  The main candidates to become Spain's next prime minister clashed on Monday over how to handle Catalan separatism, as they tried to woo voters ahead of a repeat election that opinion polls show could be as inconclusive as the one in April.

• Friday, July 26th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Spain's socialist president Sánchez has two months to avoid a new election

  

  Spain's caretaker socialist prime minister Pedro Sanchez lost a crunch post-election vote of confidence on Thursday after coalition talks with the far-left failed, pushing the country closer to repeat polls.