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Current PP Minister, Ana Pastor, new President of Spanish Parliament

July 19, 2016 02:18 PM | ACN

Former Spanish Minister for Public Works, Ana Pastor, will chair the Spanish Parliament that emerged from the Spanish elections of the 26th of June. Thus, the XII term of office has officially started. A last minute agreement between Conservative People’s Party (PP) and Spanish Unionist ‘Ciutadans’ allowed Pastor, a key member in different PP governments, to be elected in the second round, with 169 votes out of the 350-seats in the Spanish Chamber. Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) and Alternative left coalition ‘Unidos Podemos’ opted for PSOE’s Patxi López instead, who presided the Chamber for the last seven months, while pro-independence parties in the Chamber, liberal CDC and left wing ERC emitted a blank vote.

‘En Comú Podem’ see themselves in the opposition and dismiss third elections in Spain

June 27, 2016 04:15 PM | ACN

Alternative left alliance ‘En Comú Podem’, which won the Spanish Elections in Catalonia this Sunday, aims to be in the opposition in the Spanish Parliament and dismissed the possibility of holding new elections in Spain. The results in the whole of Spain, where the Conservative People’s Party won and obtained 135 MPs in the 350-seat Spanish Parliament, will probably force the parties to reach agreements in order to form government. ‘En Comú Podem’s leader, Xavier Domènech doubted whether Spain could form a “government of change” between the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) and Alternative left ‘Podemos’, as he considers the other required parties, pro-independence left-wing ERC, Liberal Convergència and the Basque National Party, PNB, to be “not very likely to get involved” and ultimately join this alliance.