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...Sánchez comes out wounded and Feijóo reinforced.”...
...They would come in addition to Castile-León, where the two parties formed their first governing coalition last year....
...Still, in one region — Castile-León, north of Madrid — Vox has been a junior coalition partner to the People’s party since last year....
...But the PP lost the initiative and the abortion row became a boon for Sánchez. His government ordered Castile-León to withdraw the protocol and threatened legal action....
...In February, Vox won 18 per cent of the vote in elections in Castile-León in north-west Spain, entering a regional government for the first time by becoming a junior partner in a coalition with the PP....
...Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists, which had come first in the previous Castile-León poll but failed to form a regional coalition, lost seven seats in the assembly, pushed into second place by the...
...Sánchez’s family cooks, washes and bathes with the water they haul back from a weekly tanker truck stop....
...Some former prisoners, including the author José León Sánchez, theorise that the two events were linked — an almost unimaginably hostile prison replacing capital punishment....
...Méndez argued Feijóo would be able to sideline Vox, much as prime minister Pedro Sánchez has largely excluded Podemos, the radical left party in his Socialist-led coalition....
...The Socialists of prime minister Pedro Sánchez, which had come first in the previous Castile-León election but failed to form an administration, endured an even worse night, losing five percentage points...
...His backers are now counting on his moderate, centre-right approach to rebuild the PP as a credible leader to oust the Socialists of prime minister Pedro Sánchez from power....
...Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s socialist prime minister, was unlikely to call a snap parliamentary poll to take advantage of the opposition’s weakness, Barroso added....
...For Sandra León of Madrid’s Carlos III university, Díaz Ayuso’s triumph owes much to the pandemic. Díaz Ayuso says her present post is the limit of her ambition....
...But the fallout from the PP-Ciudadanos split was felt elsewhere in Spain, with the Socialists also calling a motion of no confidence in the neighbouring region of Castile-Leon, where at present another PP-Ciudadanos...
...“Sánchez is trusting that vaccinations, recovery and EU funds will improve his situation.” In the meantime, the left is on the defensive....
...“Juan Carlos’s reputation had deteriorated so much that I don’t think this latest news makes much difference to the opinion Spaniards have of him,” said Sandra León, a political scientist at Madrid’s Carlos...
...Mr López Obrador said he intended to continue following public affairs from the National Palace, but that Olga Sánchez Cordero, the interior minister, would replace him at his daily morning news conference...
...Verónica Casado, his equivalent for the Castile-León region, added that the more new measures were delayed, the more infections, hospital admissions and deaths there would be....
...Barcelona and large parts of the Castile-Leon region are also excluded from phase one, although this is less controversial with their regional leaders....
...Isabel Díaz Ayuso, head of Madrid’s regional government, has accused Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of allowing only “one form of thinking” on coronavirus....
...Sandra León, a political scientist at Madrid’s Carlos III university, argues that the two big immediate challenges for the new government — the Catalan negotiations and the budget — will be intimately linked...
...In regional party primaries in Castilla y León a former PP regional politician, supported by Mr Rivera, lost a disputed election after some 80 irregular votes were discovered....
...Tanja Alemany Sanchez de León, spokeswoman for the German economics ministry, said on Wednesday that the release of such funds was already conditional on countries’ carrying out certain structural reforms...
...Luis Vicente León, a pollster with the Caracas-based Datanálisis, says that 8 out of 10 Venezuelans are willing to vote Mr Maduro out of office....
...Ms Sánchez’s 14-year-old nephew, Oliver, was shot five times by malandros, or thugs, while riding on the back of a friend’s motorcycle....
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