In that matter, the federal judges are considering in part whether questions over the 66,000 ballots being challenged by Griffin should actually be heard by a federal court. Lawyers for Riggs and the board say the matter involves federal voting rights and election law. Griffin's side says it ...
With no party able to form a government in the wake of that election, Rajoy remained as acting prime minister and led his party to victory in June 2016, when the PP gained 33 percent of the vote and were able to form a government with the support of center-right party Ciudadanos. Howe...
He became Leader of the People’s Party in 2004 and Prime Minister in 2011 following the People’s Party landslide victory in that year’s general election becoming the sixth President of the Spanish Government. The party lost its majority in the 2015 general election, but after that election...
Discusses the political career of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. Prediction on the status of Aznar in the elections on March 12, 2000; His contributions to the economic development of Spain.Wall Street Journal - Eastern EditionKamm...
MADRID, June 26 (Xinhua) -- The People's Party of acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy won the most seats in the general election on Sunday, preliminary results have showed. With 95 percent of votes counted, the party won 32.9 percent of the votes, which translated into 137 seats in ...
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced he is dissolving the Catalan parliament, and called for a new regional election on Dec. 21. He spoke after a special Cabinet meeting to discuss what measures to take in the wake of the Catalan parliament's vote to secede from Spain earlier Friday...
Spain's prime minister and leader of the Socialist Party (PSOE), Pedro Sánchez, said on Monday (24 July) his party would find "a formula to govern” with the new left-wing platform Sumar, a day after inconclusive general elections that resulted in a hun
In Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair said it was "hopelessly naive" to think that giving up in Iraq would lessen the threat from Islamic extremists. "The fact is that these people will continue. It is a war. It is a war on our way of life, it is a war on our democracy, it is...
Judge’s request raises stakes in case prime minister has described as rightwing smear campaign July 20 2024 Janan Ganesh Spain’s other victories Of all Europe’s old powers, Spain alone has had a good century July 17 2024 European Central Bank ...
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