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Rajoy chooses Catalan Dolors Montserrat as new Minister for Health and gives Vice President enhanced competences
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Second day of Spanish investiture debate centres on Catalonia's push for independence
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Rajoy to be invested as Spanish President on Saturday
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Catalan Socialist Party heavyweights maintain their 'no’ to Rajoy’s investiture
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Renewed deadlock in Spain
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Sánchez confirms socialists ‘no’ to Rajoy
The leader of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) described as a “waste of time” his meeting on Monday with conservative leader Mariano Rajoy. In a press conference in Madrid, Sánchez said that the Socialists will vote against a new Rajoy-led government. The People’s Party (PP) and Ciutadans (C’s) agreed on Sunday a 150-point plan to form a new Spanish government, but they do not have enough support in parliament. Rajoy will face a confidence vote on Wednesday, and a second one on Friday if the first ballot fails. According to Sánchez, the socialists cannot be blamed for the expected failure of Rajoy.
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PP and C’s reach agreement paving the way for a new Rajoy government
The conservative People’s Party (PP) and the liberal Ciutadans sealed on Sunday an agreement that they hope will gain enough votes in the Spanish Congress to allow Mariano Rajoy to be appointed as Spanish president. The deal comes after a week of intense negotiations between the two parties and could put an end to an eight-month deadlock in Spain, which has been without a functioning government since December 2015. PP and C’s have agreed on a 150-point plan that includes economic, social and institutional measures. Amongst them, a controversial commitment to introduce a trilingual model in schools that would de facto suspend the current Catalan immersion system and frontal opposition to any kind of independence referendum.
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Spain responds to Parliament’s vote on pro-independence roadmap by appealing to the TC again
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Third elections in Spain would be “terrible”, says Catalan Government
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Pro-independence parties won’t be invited to lunch with Obama on his visit to Spain
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Rajoy warns he “won’t renounce his right to rule” but admits to being “open to all formulas”
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Pro-independence parties see Spain as “unreformable” while Rajoy aims to “defend all Spaniards"
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Rajoy on Fernández Díaz’s smear conspiracy against pro-independence parties: “I just found out yesterday”
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It’s official: Spanish election to be held on 26th of June
The Spanish King has signed this Tuesday the decree calling an early election in Spain. The main political parties have been unable to reach an agreement to form a stable government and so for the first time since the restoration of democracy, the Spanish Congress will be dissolved only five months after a general election. The calling of early elections has been an open secret since last week, when the King already said that he was not going to offer the leader of any political party the task of trying to form a government. Neither conservative Mariano Rajoy nor socialist Pedro Sánchez have the necessary support to win an investiture debate. Sánchez tried to achieve the support of Congress for a government led by him and C’s but was defeated. Rajoy, the current president, did not even try.