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The two right-wing parties did not win enough seats to form an absolute majority, and the possibility that the Popular Party and the far-right Vox could make pacts with other parties can be completely ruled out

Candidates exchanged a volley of personal attacks and urged voters to go out in force on Sunday. Although polls indicate a more likely victory for the right, the end of the campaign seemed to provide a late-minute boost to the left

The ultranationalist Vox would win additional seats if elections were held today, although respondents showed unprecedented support for the left’s handling of the economy

After a successful Hollywood career, the Spanish actor is back in his native Málaga and busy with a new project he hopes will turn the city into a global cultural hub

Madrid says doing so would send the wrong signals to the financial markets as Europe works to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050

Thanks to the legislation – which was only opposed by the far-right Vox party – pets and wild species will no longer be considered ‘objects’ in the Spanish Civil Code

Alberto Rodríguez has hired the legal team of ex-Catalan premier Carles Puigdemont to prove he should not have been stripped of his status because of a prison conviction involving 2014 events

The governing party joined right-wing groups in opposing a measure that is backed by its own coalition partner Unidas Podemos and other parliamentary allies

Pedro Sánchez faces skepticism a day after meeting with the Catalan premier and a week after releasing nine pardoned leaders of the 2017 secession attempt

The crowd of around 60,000 people was mostly there to support far-right Vox, with the conservative Popular Party and center-right Ciudadanos keeping a lower profile

Early turnout figures suggest that an unusually acrimonious campaign filled with rhetoric about defending ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’ has galvanized voters of all political stripes into action

Six candidates clashed ahead of the May 4 poll, evidencing the polarization of politics in a country dealing with ongoing health and economic crises

The measure is aimed at helping ‘companies, small and medium-sized enterprises and self-employed workers’ who have been hit by the economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis

After decades of social debate, Spain will regulate the right to a dignified death

The victory brings added stability to the minority government and powers an ultra-expansive spending plan to deal with the coronavirus crisis

Congress on Thursday approved a bill that the political right has vowed to fight tooth and nail, in a replay of the discord triggered by seven earlier reforms

Main opposition party abstains to show that it considers the emergency measure abusively long

Party leader Santiago Abascal spent more than two hours listing catastrophes he attributed to the Spanish government, citing George Soros, the Taliban and ISIS

The far-right party’s leader, Santiago Abascal, is running as a candidate to replace Socialist Party Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, but the bid is almost certainly doomed to fail due to lack of support from other groups

The Popular Party’s Galician candidate secured his fourth absolute majority on Sunday, while the ‘lehendakari’ will be able to govern with the support of the Socialists

The former mayor of the Spanish capital speaks to EL PAÍS about the future of the low-emissions zone, which the new right-wing municipal council has tried to suspend

Its presence would violate rules on minimum congressional representation; PM Pedro Sánchez says he will instead attend a four-candidate event on public broadcaster TVE

As elections approach, the opposition is resorting to scare tactics to convince voters that Socialist Party Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez must go

The same judges who ruled against him could open door to early release as former president continues to appeal corruption conviction

A Brazilian court will soon decide if it confirms or overrules Lula’s nine-year prison sentence

But opponents of unpopular president face uphill battle in their bid for new popular ballot