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...Pedro Sánchez has driven Spain into a frenzy with his bombshell decision to take five days to decide whether he wants to carry on as prime minister....
...It is the price that acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez has paid to secure a second term on Thursday in a parliamentary vote — and it has sparked a fierce debate and protests in Madrid....
...Spaniards headed to the polls on Sunday with the choice of re-electing Pedro Sánchez and his fractious leftwing alliance or letting conservatives reverse the prime minister’s reforms in a possible pact with...
...It comes at a delicate time for regional politics, given Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s contentious deal with Catalan separatists to stay in power....
...But his homecoming would also stoke the national political fury that boiled over in Spain this week.Not only was Puigdemont the lead Catalan negotiator of the political accord that enabled Prime Minister Pedro...
...“Podemos has become self-absorbed and isolated,” said Martínez-Bascuñán....
...PP mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida is leading but would need the hard-right Vox party to secure a majority....
...Spanish lawmakers’ approval last week of measures to save energy by, among other things, restricting the temperature of air conditioning was a welcome win for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez — who will need...
...personal finances.Madrid’s plans were announced by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the firebrand head of the conservative regional government, who reinforced her national profile by marrying them with an attack on Pedro...
...“What we’re seeing is a replication of the culture war that the far right is waging in many democracies,” said Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán, a political scientist at the Autonomous University of Madrid....
...The best way to see it as a tourist is on one of the special food tours, like Anais Martinez’s The Curious Mexican....
...Pepi Martinez, a retiree in the working-class La Marina district, says the city has lost its charm and can feel unsafe....
...Spain’s chamber of deputies has approved the biggest budget in the country’s history after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez won the support of a Catalan pro-independence party in return for a deal setting a...
...“This has the potential to win them another election,” says Mortera-Martinez....
...Martínez-Bascuñán also argued that the right faces far tougher obstacles if it is to return to power on the national stage....
...“The Madrid election is set to determine the future of the right in Spain,” said Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán, a political scientist at the autonomous university of Madrid....
...Lola Food is Lola’s passion and she considers dog toys a waste of nap time, says owner Pedro Saffi....
....£11.99 for 50cl (usually £13.99) Waitrose, £14.18 Master of Malt Lustau, Murillo Pedro Ximénez Sherry 17% This very sweet sherry is too interesting to use simply as something to pour over ice cream....
...The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has called on the government to ban construction work....
...On March 12, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, the mayor of Madrid, suggested that the city might have to be shut down. But the Spanish government only agreed to a lockdown two days later....
...In Peru, President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned in March over his links to the company, and other former Peruvian presidents have been implicated....
...Ana Martínez, 33, left her four children aged between two and eight in San Pedro Sula in Honduras and does not want to go back, after gangs killed her parents and brother-in-law....
...Ms Mortera-Martinez says one awkward question is how Spain’s other regions would react if the proposals singled out Catalonia for special favour....
...Following Mr Bompard’s departure, Fnac-Darty this month named Enrique Martinez, head of the company’s northern European region, as managing director....
...Newspapers trot out the headline figures of hopelessness in “the murder capital of the world” (San Pedro Sula, Honduras) or the multiplying homicide rate in El Salvador....
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