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...The opposition People’s party (PP) accused him on Thursday of creating a power vacuum in order to garner “compassion” from voters.María Jesús Montero, deputy prime minister, said allies were seeking to send...
...Obvious candidates include finance minister María Jesús Montero and environment minister Teresa Ribera — both also deputy prime ministers — as well as Pilar Alegría, education minister....
...María Jesús Montero, Spain’s deputy prime minister, said, “we are facing the worst PP in history” and accused it of getting mixed up with the “practices and discourses of the extreme right”....
...The prime minister decided to split Calviño’s role in a mini-cabinet reshuffle, handing her other duties as the most senior of Spain’s deputy prime ministers to finance minister María Jesús Montero....
...Refined Cantabrian dishes are served at the excellent Amós, led by chef Jesús Sánchez, while Las Brasas de Castellana offers broader Spanish cuisine....
...Jesús Leal, a sociologist and professor at Madrid’s Complutense university, said “public housing is the only long-term solution” to an affordability crisis....
...The government of prime minister Pedro Sánchez argues that big utilities and banks are making “extraordinary” profits and have a responsibility to help alleviate the cost of living crisis....
...Last week Sánchez unveiled a €10bn set of measures to ease the cost of living crisis....
...It consolidates Sánchez’s hold on power at the same time as highlighting Spain’s fragmented politics....
...Refined Cantabrian dishes are served at the excellent Amós, led by chef Jesús Sánchez, while Las Brasas de la Castellana offers broader Spanish cuisine....
...The money is at the heart of the economic and political strategy of the government of Pedro Sánchez, under whose watch the economy contracted by a savage 10.8 per cent in 2020, and which faces elections...
...“It is essential that we receive these amounts at this moment,” says María Jesús Montero, Spain’s budget minister, adding that the country is still coping with the “hangover” from the savage 11 per cent...
...Prime minister Pedro Sánchez’s government wants to begin EU-funded projects as soon as possible to overcome what it expects to be a contraction in GDP of more than 11 per cent this year....
...“You can perfectly well imagine [what I think] if I tell you that we are equal before the law and, particularly, those of us who have public responsibilities,” María Jesús Montero, the budget minister, said...
...This month, Jesús Ramírez, the president’s press chief, tested positive for the virus....
...His spokesman, Jesús Ramírez, initially said the president felt unwell and was tested in the northern city of Monterrey on the eve of his return home....
...For Isaías Vásquez Sánchez, employed for 43 years on Mexican railways, “the train will bring back glory”....
...According to figures published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on Thursday, Spain, which prime minister Pedro Sánchez boasted a month ago had some of the lowest infection rates...
...“It would be a great risk for citizens’ health if the state of alert were not approved,” María Jesús Montero, government spokeswoman, said on Tuesday....
...Spain is set to approve a budget that will lead to an increase in the tax take, more spending on social services and a landmark use of money from the EU’s coronavirus recovery fund, according to María Jesús...
...“People would not understand why the PP, which has spent weeks asking for a tougher lockdown and a paralysis of industrial activity, will not support it at this time,” said María Jesús Montero, budget minister...
...María Jesús Montero, budget minister, hailed Thursday’s vote in parliament backing the government’s deficit proposals as an “important step” that would allow “the approval of the budget during the summer...
...“How the pandemic is evolving now has nothing to do with how it developed in March,” said María Jesús Montero, a government minister and spokesperson, this week....
...The prime minister has strengthened the roles of his two most senior economics policymakers: Nadia Calviño, economics minister, who becomes a deputy prime minister, and María Jesús Montero, budget minister...
...“There are some countries like Italy where the citizens are demonstrating because certain social needs aren’t being met,” said María Jesús Montero, Spain’s budget minister and government spokeswoman....
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