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...“Peña . . . presents a very good, professional image of Paraguay,” said Mariano Ortiz, senior economist at investment bank BancTrust....
...Abascal joined the PP but in 2013 was part of a group who quit the party in order to found Vox, disgusted over corruption and then prime minister Mariano Rajoy for not taking a tougher line against separatists...
...Ofelia Flores Moreno succeeded in finding the body of her husband, José Candelario Espinoza Ochoa, a month after he disappeared in 2017, but not thanks to the police....
...Sunday’s elections came less than a year after Mariano Rajoy’s conservative government lost the confidence of the parliament due to the PP’s involvement in several corruption cases....
...But for Rick Gonzalez, AbbVie chief executive, and his counterpart at Allergan, Brent Saunders, the meme has significant meaning....
...The turmoil surrounding Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy has added to the nervousness of the European markets....
...Mr Sánchez formed a minority government last June when Mariano Rajoy of the Popular party lost a confidence vote following a corruption scandal....
...“Podemos’s ethics code is not a formality,” said José María González, the party’s mayor of Cádiz, who has criticised Mr Iglesias and his partner, Irene Montero, also a Podemos lawmaker....
...snap general election on April 28 was precipitated by the fall of the minority Socialist (PSOE) government of Pedro Sanchez, which lasted barely nine months after toppling the centre-right government of Mariano...
...Francisco González, the former executive chairman BBVA, has stepped down from his honorary chairmanship at the Spanish lender amid an ongoing investigation into corporate spying during his time heading the...
...Herbert Smith Freehills, a law firm, has promoted Leopoldo Gonzalez-Echenique to partner in its corporate division in Madrid....
...Under the PP’s former prime minister Mariano Rajoy, who led Spain for seven years until June, the party tended to downplay the immigration issue....
...Faced with this new development, it was always going to be difficult for Mariano Rajoy’s Spanish government not to take a robust, hard approach....
...Mr González denies wrongdoing....
...He said the government of ousted premier Mariano Rajoy had allowed Spain to be portrayed by the regional separatists as cruel and dogmatic....
...Spanish bank BBVA has announced that executive chairman Francisco González will step down at the end of the year, to be replaced by chief executive Carlos Torres Vila. Read more here....
...Moreover, in the light of this week’s turmoil, it is debatable if Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, and Mr Puigdemont are the right men to cut a deal....
...Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, is under pressure to declare direct rule from Madrid under the (never before-used) Article 155 of the constitution....
...of what we’ve been missing without Silvio on the global stage — besides sex scandals and corruption allegations — view the video below to see him singing in perfect French with his favourite songwriter Mariano...
...Political corruption has returned to haunt the government of Mariano Rajoy after Spanish police arrested a prominent member of the prime minister’s centre-right party....
...She had the public support of most PSOE regional leaders and of the party’s former prime ministers, Felipe González and José Luis Zapatero....
...Take Felipe González, a Socialist who hails from the southern region of Andalusia and who served as prime minister from 1982 to 1996....
...The affair is the most recent in a string of corruption cases and graft probes that have blighted the government of Mariano Rajoy over the past four years....
...Spain’s far-left Podemos party has called for a vote of no-confidence against Mariano Rajoy, in an attempt to raise the political pressure on the prime minister after a fresh burst of corruption revelations...
...As Felipe González, the former Socialist prime minister, recently observed: “Rajoy is the only creature that advances without moving.”...
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