left-wing ideas (his grandfather was a Republican captain who was executed by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936), he first became fascinated with politics when he attended his first political rally in Gijуn (Asturias) in 1977, when Spain was about to hold it...
the PSOE, formed a minority government with support of the left-wingUnidos Podemosalliance and minor parties. In 2019 two general elections were held in which the political partyVoxgained seats in the Parliament. The party is the representative of Spanish Conservatism with its leaderSantiago Ab...
Spain considering revoking political asylum status of Equatorial Guinean opposition leader
Spain’s last attempt at democratic government, were avoided, and the political elite that emerged during the 1970s permitted each significant sector of society a share in the final political solution. Suarez’s legalization in April 1977 of the Communist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de Espan...
Political parties and leaders: Aragonese Party or CHA [Bizen FUSTER]; Basque Nationalist Party or PNV [Inigo URKULLU]; Basque Solidarity or EA [Begona ERRAZTI]; Canarian Coalition or CC [Jose Torres STINGA] (a coalition of five parties); Convergence and Union or CiU [Artur MAS i Gavarro...
party in which card-holding members vote. The winning party's leader is the president of the state and the leading political figure in Spain. From this perspective, the Cortes remains the more important of the 2 houses. The method of election used is the D'Hondt method of election (based...
“tax harmonization” scheme—a euphemism for getting rid of fiscal competition—that would end the freedom of autonomous communities, the largest political and administrative units in Spain, to set their own policies in terms of wealth, inheritance, and income taxes, the last of which consist of...
Spain’s political system is aparliamentary democracy, with three branches of government: Executive Branch– Headed by thePrime Minister, the head of government, who is responsible for running the country’s day-to-day affairs. The Prime Minister is typically the leader of the majority party in...
Isabella I, also known as Isabella the Catholic, was queen of Castile and León. She and her husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon, brought stability to the kingdoms that became the basis for the political unification of Spain under their grandson, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. After a struggle to...
“There is no real tradition of a liberal, centrist party in Spain,” says Jorge Galindo, political analyst and editor of the Politikon blog. “Maybe they have created one from scratch, and it’s growing, but maybe it’s more about Catalonia.” ...