Two former Spanish prime ministers will testify as witnesses later this month in an illegal funding scandal centred on the rightwing Popular Party (PP), a court said Friday.
The rightwing leader of Madrid's regional government, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, resigned Wednesday and called a snap election on May 4th in Spain's wealthiest region.
Before becoming Spanish prime minister in 2011, Mariano Rajoy received off-the-books bonuses, the main suspect in an illegal funding scandal centred on the rightwing Popular Party told a court Monday.
In office for just over a year, Spain's leftwing coalition grouping the Socialists and hard-left Podemos is showing signs of strain with constant bickering between the two camps.
Catalonia voted Sunday in an election overshadowed by the pandemic and which Madrid hopes will unseat the region's ruling separatists more than three years after a failed bid to break away from
Spain.
The trial of a key figure in an illegal funding scandal involving Spain's rightwing Popular Party opened Monday with the
defendant pledging a full confession directly implicating the former premier.
Spain's government on Thursday froze its proposed controversial reform of a top legal body that critics including Brussels had warned could undermine the judicial system's independence.
The proposed reform of a top Spanish legal body has sparked a storm of controversy, with critics warning it risks undermining the judicial system's independence in concerns echoed by Brussels.
Spain's parliament rejected Thursday a no-confidence motion filed by the far-right Vox against the leftwing coalition
government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
Spain's parliament on Wednesday began debating a no-confidence motion filed by the far-right Vox against the leftwing coalition government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
Blighted by the EU's highest number of virus cases, Spain's handling of the pandemic has been hamstrung by political infighting with the latest battle sparked by plans to lock down the capital.
The Catalan prisons administration in northeastern Spain on Thursday proposed a semi-open regime for separatist leaders jailed over the failed 2017 independence bid, the regional government said.
The Spanish government will have to reveal the name of senior officials who don’t declare their assets properly or have refused to do so altogether, Spain’s high court has decided.
Charges against the chief of Catalonia's police force during the Spanish region's failed 2017 independence bid have been downgraded from rebellion to sedition, the prosecutor said as the trial of Josep Lluis Trapero resumed on Monday.
Spain could soon have its first left-wing coalition government after general elections on November 10th led to an agreement between erstwhile political rivals on the left.
The number of Catalans who support regional independence fell to just under 42 percent, a new poll shows, carried out before Spain's top court jailed nine separatist leaders.
Spain will hold another general election on Sunday, its fourth in four years. But how did we get here? What are the key issues? What's at stake? And who's tipped to win?
A new poll revealing voter intentions ahead of the general election on November 10th shows that the PSOE will win the most seats but still fail to secure a majority.
Madrid hopes the upcoming ruling in the case of 12 Catalan separatist leaders will enable it to open fresh dialogue with the wealthy northeastern region, a junior minister said Tuesday.
Spain's far-right party Vox launched its election campaign Sunday with an all-out attack on Pedro Sanchez's ruling socialists ahead of the November 10 parliamentary polls.
The former number two of Spain's Podemos said Wednesday he would contest November's elections, running against his former close friend Pablo Iglesias who heads the far-left party.
A court in Spain on Wednesday acquitted the country's main opposition conservative Popular party (PP) of destroying
computer hard drives that allegedly had incriminating information on a corruption case.
