
Spain: Socialist PM Calls for Snap Elections Following Local Defeats
By calling for early elections, Sánchez is likely working to deny the country’s right-of-center opposition any additional time to further increase its share of the vote.
By calling for early elections, Sánchez is likely working to deny the country’s right-of-center opposition any additional time to further increase its share of the vote.
He defended the law as “a good law,” but admits that “an unwanted effect has been caused that neither the Executive Power nor the legislative contemplated, but that we have to solve.”
VOX’s no-confidence motion to oust PM Pedro Sánchez amounts to little more than a gimmick.
Spain’s upcoming turn at holding the EU Council Presidency is a high-stakes opportunity likely to be missed.
Half of the political and economic power must be for women, socialist PM Pedro Sánchez said, but feminists remain skeptical.
Some say the political project of Spain’s labour minister is uniting the Left, yet she may actually be establishing her own movement.
The spokesman for the Moroccan House of Representatives Rachid Talbi Alami said in a statement that the Moroccan Parliament had decided to “reconsider” its relationship with the European Parliament.
“It is not about Left, Right, or Center, but about not remaining inactive as our institutions erode, our democracy deteriorates, and our state weakens,” asserted the manifesto, read out during the demonstration.
The Left-coalition government in Spain is, quite straightforwardly, abolishing democracy. We explore recent events to unpack this country’s dangerous trajectory.
The new norms are likely to become law by the end of the year, slipped in as amendments to other proposed changes to the penal code that would eliminate the crime of sedition and lower the legal consequences for misappropriating public funds.