Pablo Iglesias

Election deadline looms as Spain’s left struggles to agree on government

King Felipe due to decide if Socialist Sánchez will face new investiture vote

Spanish leader confident of forming leftist minority government

Socialist Sánchez has three weeks before new elections are called

The Irish Times view on Spanish politics: A missed opportunity

PSOE and Podemos fail to form coalition government, worsening an irritation with mainstream politics

Spain edges towards election as Pedro Sánchez fails to form government

Socialists lose parliamentary vote amid disagreement with Podemos on coalition posts

Spanish investiture goes down to wire

Socialist Sánchez seeks Podemos backing ahead of crunch votes

Repeat elections loom in Spain as left and right in stalemates

Political in-fighting threatens the formation of national and Madrid administrations

Left at loggerheads as Spain awaits new government

Fragmented parliament leaves country in political limbo two months after elections

Spain’s ‘Watergate’ erupts ahead of election

Podemos among targets of political spying, theft and smears as ‘state sewers’ stay active

Spain’s Podemos licks its wounds on its fifth birthday

Infighting, policy clashes and Venezuelan crisis leave leftist party in near-chaos

Maduro wins backing of Venezuelan senior military figures

World leaders split over power struggle in crisis-stricken South American country

New ruling on Spanish ‘Wolfpack’ sex assault sparks backlash

Five men convicted of sexually abusing woman at Pamplona festival but absolved of rape

Spanish borrowers not banks must pay mortgage tax, court rules

Controversial legal U-turn made amid fears of homeowner lawsuits seeking backdating

Spanish minister’s ‘friendship in the sewers’ leaves government reeling

String of scandals and U-turns puts pressure on Socialist PM Pedro Sánchez

Pedro Sánchez ousts Rajoy to become Spain’s prime minister

Socialist becomes the new PM with the support of a ‘Frankenstein coalition’

Socialists scramble to gather support for motion against Mariano Rajoy

Spanish prime minister faces no-confidence vote this week

Spanish opposition seeks to unseat corruption-plagued Rajoy

Socialists could struggle to gather support for no-confidence vote against prime minister

Women’s strike a new cause of Spanish discord

Madrid Letter: Political right accuses leftists of commandeering protests

Corruption claims threaten to destabilise Spanish government

Senior member of Rajoy’s governing Popular Party confirms kickbacks system

Catalan crisis is nothing more than Spanish party politics

The European Union is right to refuse to intervene in what is essentially a local row

New ‘republican’ football shirt has Spanish conservatives crying foul

Purple colouring reminds many of leftist pre-war flag

War of words still raging as Catalonia remains defiant

Region’s president Carles Puigdemont due to make widely anticipated address today

Spain’s crisis sharpens as Catalonia referendum campaign begins

Madrid launches legal offensive to thwart October 1st vote for Catalan independence

Spain’s Mariano Rajoy testifies in corruption trial

Prime minister insists in court he had no role in Popular Party’s allegedly shady finances

Balearic Islands ban killing of bulls

Spanish government expected to appeal against new bullfighting restrictions

Spanish king warns Catalans over independence plan

Monarch acknowledges ‘immense tragedy’ of Franco ‘dictatorship’ for first the time

Referendum in Catalonia: sleepwalking into a crisis

Mariano Rajoy appears so determined to change nothing that he may soon find major changes happening very fast

Spain’s Rajoy wins no-confidence vote despite corruption scandals

Podemos fails to gain parliamentary support for alternative government

Podemos: Decisive vote for Iglesias cements position at helm

Spanish anti-austerity party seeks to end damaging rift in leadership

Spain’s Podemos faces reckoning at party’s national assembly

Leader Pablo Iglesias and his deputy are locked in a dispute over leftist group’s future

Podemos leaders battle for party’s soul in search of winning formula

Madrid Letter: Pablo Iglesias wants to steer party to hard left, but his deputy disagrees

Spanish politician unleashes storm on anniversary of Muslim defeat

Senior member of governing Popular Party tweeted ‘With Islam we would not be free’

Podemos fends off Trump parallels as Spain debates populism

Pablo Iglesias strongly rejects ‘ignorant’ comparisons following US election result

Revolt in socialists party over leader’s refusal to end Spain’s political deadlock

All-out, very public war unleashed in heart of party over Sánchez stance

Basque regional elections will be a crucial test for struggling Podemos

Party hopes to do well as voters focus on jobs and regeneration rather than independence

Row over World Bank post threatens efforts to form government in Spain

Former minister disgraced by Panama Papers recommended for lucrative job

Pro-independence Basque leader’s candidacy blocked

Electoral body in Spanish region says Arnaldo Otegi cannot run due to Eta conviction

Rajoy plans to form Spanish government by end of July

Advances bolster Popular Party leader’s ambition to form ‘grand coalition’

Spanish elections: Rajoy claims a victory for conservatives

The Popular Party leader has topped the poll but is still short of the majority he needs

Spain: Anti-austerity challengers Podemos aim for ‘new era’

Governing Popular Party confronted by new threat from the Left in weekend’s elections

Six months, and still stalemate with no government in Spain

The public mood generally has shifted from exasperation to resignation, but the impact of a second impasse will be unpredictable

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