Spain's conservative Popular Party (PP) on Saturday picked Pablo Casado, 37, to replace Mariano Rajoy after the former prime minister was ousted in a no-confidence vote in June.
Spain's ruling Popular Party (PP) will stand trial for allegedly destroying laptops used by a former treasurer being tried over a suspected slush fund, a court ruling published on Friday said. It will be the first time that a political party goes on trial in the country.
An unemployed man who drove a car loaded with a home-made bomb into the Madrid headquarters of Spain's ruling Popular Party (PP) has been sentenced to five years in jail, a court said on Monday.
Spain's Socialist chief Pedro Sanchez ventures into hostile parliamentary territory on Tuesday to plead with lawmakers to vote him through as prime minister and allow the country to finally get a government, knowing his chances are slim.
Spanish police said on Tuesday some 10 people had been detained in the eastern region of Valencia in a fresh corruption case that also allegedly involves a former high-profile member of the incumbent Popular Party (PP).
The famous Spanish director has joined more than 100 artists in signing a letter putting pressure on left-wing parties to form a "popular front" against Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s ruling conservative party in the end of year elections.
Updated: The man who rammed a car loaded with gas bottles into the headquarters of Spain's ruling Popular Party in Madrid on Friday morning has said any party could have been the target of the attack as "all politicians are the same".
Updated: the Spanish government's new plans to clean up politics in the country have been mocked by opposition parties the day after a scandal-hit minister was forced to resign over her links to a high-profile kickbacks scheme.
Ever since news of Isabel Carrasco's murder broke on Monday, the internet has been awash with comments reflecting just how little empathy Spaniards feel with their political classes. Here The Local takes a close look at what Carrasco's death has revealed about Spain's attitude to its politicians.
A 19-year-old Spanish man has been arrested for sending out threatening tweets authorities believe justify Monday's murder of Spanish politician Isabel Carrasco.
A 59-year-old mother has confessed to firing the bullets that killed Spanish politician Isabel Carrasco, shot down in the city of León on Monday, saying she did it because of a "personal grudge".
Spanish police on Tuesday questioned a struggling, laid-off council worker and her mother over the public gunning down of a ruling party politician, a murder that has halted campaigning for European elections in the country.
Spanish police arrested a mother and daughter suspected of shooting dead a ruling party politician in broad
daylight on Monday afternoon in apparent revenge after the younger woman lost her job.
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.
A court on Monday sentenced a top ally of Spain's prime minister to four years' jail for tax fraud, in one of the country's most notorious recent corruption scandals.
Spain's opposition leader Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba repeated his calls for the Spanish Prime Minister to resign after Rajoy admitted on Thursday that he made a mistake by trusting slush fund treasurer Luis Bárcenas.
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is strongly placed to survive an embarrassing corruption scandal in a country where top-level political resignations are rare and no ever admits they are guilty, analysts say.
An ex-treasurer of Spain's ruling party told a court on Monday he had handed secret cash payments to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy from a slush fund, judicial sources said.
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy refused on Monday to resign over a corruption scandal rocking his government as it fights to rescue the eurozone's fourth-biggest economy from an economic crisis.
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy faced calls to resign on Sunday after the publication of friendly mobile text messages he purportedly sent to the disgraced treasurer at the heart of the slush fund affair.
Spain's opposition socialist PSOE party on Tuesday again called for the country's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to resign in the wake of allegations he accepted illegal under-the-table payments while a minister in the 1990s.
Spain's ruling Popular Party (PP) issued a statement on Tuesday once again denying that the party's ex-treasurer Luis Bárcenas operated an illegal slush fund which was used to make under-the-table payments to party officials.
Former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar hinted at a possible return to politics in a TV interview on Tuesday in which he criticized members of the Popular Party, among them his successor, Mariano Rajoy.
Spain revised up its public deficit figure for 2012 on Wednesday to 6.98 percent of economic output from the 6.74 percent figure it posted last month to comply with a request from the EU's statistics office to the way it computes tax claims.
