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...Moreover, Vox stands for a reassertion of the model of highly centralised rule from Madrid that defined Spain in the 18th and 19th centuries and under Franco....
...In the late 1970s, as Spain was shedding dictatorship for democracy, the future Socialist prime minister Felipe González said that his aim in politics was to turn “our country into a society similar to that...
...See, for example, offers from Chapoutier and Luis Felipe Edwards (LFE)....
...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...
...Last month, dozens of retired military officers sent two letters to Felipe VI attacking the “social-communist government”....
...He was born in exile as well, in Rome, and served as Spain’s king for almost 40 years, starting upon the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975....
...The respite brought by Juan Carlos’ abdication in 2014 in favour of his son Felipe was cut short by fresh allegations....
...The building in which he gave the interview was inaugurated by Francisco Franco, the late dictator, in 1955....
...Felipe González, Spain’s Socialist prime minister between 1982 and 1996, has contrasted the country’s political instability with the long-lasting post-Franco governments, when Spain focused on joining first...
...An earlier centre-right party was wiped out after winning the first two post-Franco elections....
...Mr Borrell is the last political survivor of the Spanish socialists’ post-Franco golden age, embodied by the 1982-96 premiership of Felipe González....
...Mr Borrell was regarded as a heavyweight in the Sánchez administration, having been a minister under Felipe González in the 1980s and ’90s, a former leader of the Socialist party (PSOE) and president of...
...back again, or [General] Franco has come back,” he said....
...It was taken back to Madrid in 1981, after Franco’s death....
...Whatever the crimes of the Franco regime, they cannot be taken as an excuse for a wave of killings that ended 36 years after the death of Franco....
...In a statement Felipe said he had called on Pedro Sánchez, the leader of the Socialist party, to form the next government....
...This week, King Felipe sought to break the deadlock by calling on the Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez to try and form a government....
...This second transition has, in truth, already started, with the ascension to the throne in June 2014 of King Felipe VI after the abdication of Juan Carlos, his father....
...For a time, that assembly included not only the leaders of the Franco-German power axis (Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy), but also of the eurozone’s two other large economies (Spain’s Mariano Rajoy and...
...It reminds him of the fears expressed by the business sector just before the election of Felipe González, the first Socialist prime minister after General Franco, dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975....
...Chief among them, he says, is the legacy of nepotism and cronyism that flourished under General Francisco Franco....
...Spain’s monarchy understood this to the point that King Juan Carlos last year abdicated in favour of his son, King Felipe. Was that populist?...
...The abdication of King Juan Carlos of Spain, in favour of his son, Felipe, Prince of Asturias, has been on the cards for some time....
...His own proclamation took place just days after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, and Juan Carlos went on to play a crucial role during his country’s transition to democracy....
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