As Spain heads towards Sunday’s municipal and regional elections, the country's political parties are scrambling to woo wavering voters, who look set to decide the outcome in one of the closest elections in memory.
In the run up to Spain's local and regional elections at the end of May, politicians have been trying out unsual ways to entice voters - many of which they most probably now regret.
Spain's ruling Popular Party has seen a prominent publicity campaign backfire after hundreds of taxis carrying campaign posters were vandalized, prompting complaints from taxi drivers across the city.
In the midst of a battle of the big old forces against surging left-wing party Podemos, another young challenger has emerged: centrist party Ciudadanos.
Spain's conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Monday he will seek re-election in this year's national polls, despite facing criticism after his party was trounced in a key regional vote last month.
A minority win for the PSOE, devastation for the PP, and the rise of two newcomers. What do the Andalusian election results mean for Spain's political parties?
Spain's anti-austerity Podemos party on Sunday took third place in a regional vote in Andalusia seen as a crucial test for the political newcomer ahead of the country's most unpredictable general election in decades.
Podemos, the new anti-establishment party in Spain, has said it will replace its European members of parliament so that its leaders can run in elections at home.
In the 1930s the Spanish district of Las Hurdes was a case study in rural poverty, immortalised by the filmmaker Luis Bunuel in his bleak documentary "Land Without Bread".
British and Irish expats in Spain who are fighting to hold on to the right to vote in their home countries were finally handed a boost by the European Commission on Wednesday. But will it change anything?
Spain is facing an increasingly splintered political future with neither of the country's two major parties likely to be able to form government alone in a future election, a new poll published on Sunday shows.
