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...Sánchez’s new four year term will formally begin after the speaker of Congress communicates the results of the vote to King Felipe VI....
...Spain’s King Felipe VI will meet political leaders again next week and is expected to invite Sánchez to try to form a government....
...In a statement that followed two days of talks between King Felipe VI and political leaders, the palace said: “In the consultation procedure carried out by [the king], it has not been established that there...
...Feijóo’s PP won the most seats in the election and was asked by King Felipe to make the first attempt at forming a government....
...Felipe González, a former Socialist prime minister, said it is not. José María Aznar, a former centre-right prime minister, said it would amount to “an operation to dismantle the constitution”....
...Spain’s King Felipe VI has a role in the political drama as he must decide in coming weeks which party leader to invite to have the first stab at forming a government....
...But acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez has insisted he is the only person who can achieve the majority in Spain’s 350-seat parliament needed to take office, via pacts with a variety of smaller parties....
...There would be a price for Sánchez to pay....
...In March, Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez and King Felipe VI visited the carmaker Seat, near Barcelona, to mark their support for the electric vehicle project the country hopes will modernise and preserve...
...Socialist prime minister Pedro Sánchez on Friday said that he, like most Spaniards, rejected Juan Carlos “uncivil conduct”, but defended Felipe VI as “exemplary”....
...On Wednesday night, Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister, said it was important to maintain the presumption of innocence of the former king....
...Last month, dozens of retired military officers sent two letters to Felipe VI attacking the “social-communist government”....
...The announcement on Mr Sánchez was made by his office less than an hour before he was due to appear with King Felipe VI at an exhibition....
...believes eliminating defamatory speech protections for the monarchy would go some way towards tackling the inequalities that so anger the young protesters: “Is the honour of the crown and [reigning monarch] Felipe...
...Felipe González, Socialist prime minister for 14 years in the 1980s and 1990s, added last week that he would not “do a deal with those who want to destroy the country”....
...The king wishes to emphasise the historical importance that his father’s reign represents, as a legacy and political and institutional work of service to Spain and democracy.”In July Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez...
...Irene Montero, the equalities minister, has already contracted the virus, leading the entire cabinet and King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia to undergo tests....
...The respite brought by Juan Carlos’ abdication in 2014 in favour of his son Felipe was cut short by fresh allegations....
...Spain’s King Felipe VI has formally nominated Pedro Sánchez, the caretaker Socialist prime minister, to form the country’s next government, paving the way for a momentous parliamentary struggle in the weeks...
...In remarks after he informed King Felipe VI of the composition of the cabinet, Mr Sánchez said that, as the first coalition to rule in Spain for 80 years, his administration would take “the path of European...
...Mr Iglesias has agreed with Mr Sánchez that Spain will present its national plans for the measure this month....
...After frenetic positioning by the country’s political parties, King Felipe VI decided that there was not “sufficient support” in the Chamber of Deputies for a new government....
...Invective and accusations flew as King Felipe VI decided that no party leader had the prospect of winning a parliamentary majority, putting the country on the path to a November 10 poll....
...Official data show that a key trigger for the rise in murders of both men and women was former President Felipe Calderón’s failed military war on drugs, launched in 2006....
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