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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Inconclusive French election leaves parties fighting for dominance

Macron’s camp came second in Sunday’s vote, taking 164 seats after voters came together to block the far-right National Rally from power – leaving the anti-immigration, anti-Brussels outfit in third place with 143 MPs People gather on the Republique plaza following the second round of the legislative elections, on July 7 in Paris. Socialist Party chief Olivier Faure on Monday …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

France's desperate left-wing alliance goes in search of voters... in ENGLAND! Socialists teaming with Macron go door-to-door hoping to find French citizens and get them to vote against Marine le Pen

Daily Mail

France's desperate left-wing alliance has been going in search of extra voters in the United Kingdom as fears of a hard-right government intensify. Round one on Sunday propelled Marine Le Pen's National Rally closer than ever to government - but also left open the possibility that voters could yet block its path to power in the second and final round …

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6 months ago

'Mother of all battles': France's leftists put up united front against Marine Le Pen's far-right bloc

Firstpost

Opinion polls have shown that Marine Le Pen’s National Rally -led far-right coalition is set to win most votes in the French parliamentary elections Leaders of the left-wing parties of France have come together to form a new coalition named New Popular Front France’s left-wing parties have converged to form a new coalition to put up a united front against …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Spain’s parliament gives final approval to amnesty law for Catalonia’s separatists

Associated Press

MADRID — More than six years since Catalonia’s separatist movement took Spain to the brink of rupture, the nation’s lawmakers gave their final approval Thursday to a contentious amnesty for hundreds of secessionists in hopes of putting a definitive end to the traumatic episode. Since taking power in 2018, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has focused on reducing tensions in …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Catalan separatists lose majority as Spain’s pro-union Socialists win regional elections

Associated Press

BARCELONA, Spain — Six years after plunging Spain into its worst political crisis in decades, Catalonia’s separatist parties are in danger of losing their hold on power in the northeastern region after the pro-union Socialist Party scored a historic result in Sunday’s election. The four pro-independence parties, led by the Together party of former regional president Carles Puigdemont, were set …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Catalan separatists lose majority as Spain’s pro-union Socialists win regional elections

LA Times

Socialist candidate Salvador Illa talks with party colleagues as they wait for election results at the party headquarters in Barcelona on Sunday. Separatist parties are in danger of losing their decade-long hold of power in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region after the pro-union Socialist Party won the most votes in an election Sunday. The four pro-independence parties, led by the Together …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Sánchez reelected as Spanish prime minister despite controversy over mass amnesty

LA Times

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was reelected by legislators in a parliamentary vote Thursday that allows him to form a new minority leftist coalition government. Sánchez won the vote after clinching the backing of six smaller parties — including two Catalan separatist parties — in recent weeks, enabling him to form another minority coalition government with the left-wing Sumar party. …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Spain’s Socialists reach gov’t coalition deal with hard-left Sumar party

Al Jazeera

Spain has been stuck in political limbo since July’s general election. Spain’s Socialist Party and the hard-left Sumar party have agreed to form a coalition government, a key step in reinstating Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez for another term. They added the agreement included plans to reduce youth unemployment, reinforce the public healthcare system, boost public housing, raise emission reduction targets, …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Israel accuses Spain of siding with Hamas after ‘genocide’ accusation

Al Jazeera

Several left-wing politicians have called on Madrid to bring Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the ICC, sparking a diplomatic row. On Monday, she called on Spain to bring Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the International Criminal Court for war crimes. Israel demanded that Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez condemn the “absolutely unmoral” remarks made by his government’s …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Specter of right wing entering Spanish government fades after inconclusive national election

Associated Press

MADRID — Spain may be facing political gridlock and possibly a new election, but a national ballot produced one result that will be welcomed across the capitals of Europe: a far-right party aiming to get its hands on the levers of power was thwarted. Spain’s Vox party, with its ultranationalist bent, lost support among voters in Sunday’s election, dashing its …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Spanish general election tipped to put the far right back in office for the first time since Franco

Associated Press

MADRID — Voters in Spain go to the polls Sunday in an election that could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the populist right, a shift that would represent a major upheaval after five years under a left-wing government. Opinion polls indicate the political right has the edge going into the election, and that raises …

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1 year, 6 months ago

The problems ailing Western Europe’s left are not just cyclical

Hindustan Times

De Balie, a cosily chic cultural venue on Amsterdam’s Leidseplein, is the epicentre of Dutch liberal intellectual life. The left, Ms Neiman says, must “come up with things that we’re moving towards”, rather than simply denouncing taxonomies of oppression. Sweden’s centre-left is “incredibly unpopular among young people”, says Max Jerneck of the Stockholm School of Economics. But Italy’s left, too, …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Small leftist parties in Spain unite before July election in pact that could help Sánchez

Associated Press

MADRID — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s chances of getting reelected after a July election have received a potentially important boost following an agreement between more than a dozen small leftist parties to run on a joint ticket, a deal that is expected to provide key support for Sánchez’s Socialists in any post-election negotiations to form government. The deal signed …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Spain’s leader cracks whip on squabbling coalition partners by calling snap election

LA Times

People gather in Madrid’s main square during a march by the leftist United We Can party in January 2015. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s surprise decision to call a snap election breaks apart the coalition he built with the far-left United We Can party, marking a line in the sand with a movement born of grassroots activism but whose electoral …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Spain gov’t split over sexual consent law before Women’s Day

Associated Press

MADRID — The unity of Spain’s first-ever coalition government faced its toughest test in three years in power Tuesday, with the two ruling left-wing parties at loggerheads over reforming a pioneering sexual violence law that has inadvertently led to the reduction of sentences for over 700 offenders and caused national outrage. Socialist legislator Andrea Fernández presented the proposed reform and …

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6 years, 8 months ago

GroenLinks' hopes hinge on a coalition with the left

Dutch News

GroenLinks leader Rutger Groot Wassink is planning to form a coalition with the Liberal democratic party D66, Labour and the Socialists to regain power in Amsterdam. Despite losing many seats in the recent election, Groot Wassink does not consider this a problem and believes that a vote for a party that lost is as valuable as one for a party …

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6 years, 8 months ago

GroenLinks' hopes hinge on a coalition with the left

Dutch News

GroenLinks leader Rutger Groot Wassink is planning to form a coalition with the Liberal democratic party D66, Labour and the Socialists to regain control of Amsterdam. Despite losing many seats in the recent election, Groot Wassink does not consider this a problem and believes that a vote for a party that lost is as valuable as one for a party …

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Inconclusive French election leaves parties fighting for dominance

France's desperate left-wing alliance goes in search of voters... in ENGLAND! Socialists teaming with Macron go door-to-door hoping to find French citizens and get them to vote against Marine le Pen

'Mother of all battles': France's leftists put up united front against Marine Le Pen's far-right bloc

Spain’s parliament gives final approval to amnesty law for Catalonia’s separatists

Catalan separatists lose majority as Spain’s pro-union Socialists win regional elections

Catalan separatists lose majority as Spain’s pro-union Socialists win regional elections

Sánchez reelected as Spanish prime minister despite controversy over mass amnesty

Spain’s Socialists reach gov’t coalition deal with hard-left Sumar party

Israel accuses Spain of siding with Hamas after ‘genocide’ accusation

Specter of right wing entering Spanish government fades after inconclusive national election

Spanish general election tipped to put the far right back in office for the first time since Franco

The problems ailing Western Europe’s left are not just cyclical

Small leftist parties in Spain unite before July election in pact that could help Sánchez

Spain’s leader cracks whip on squabbling coalition partners by calling snap election

Spain gov’t split over sexual consent law before Women’s Day

GroenLinks' hopes hinge on a coalition with the left

GroenLinks' hopes hinge on a coalition with the left