Tag: VOX party

• 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

• 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.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2016 - 11:36 UTC

  Gibraltar court will decide on a man who unfurled a Spanish flag in the Rock

  

  A man was arrested in connection with the unfurling of a Spanish flag in Gibraltar. The man remains in Police custody and will be appearing before the Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday morning.