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...The amnesty deal that gave Spain’s prime minister another term in office has fractured as Catalan separatists voted against a bill that was supposed to lock in their support for Pedro Sánchez....
...Lucía Méndez, a leading Spanish columnist, said Feijóo, who took over the PP last year, no longer had a clear strategy. “He came to Madrid with a plan to govern....
...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...
...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....
...Vox has become unmanageable for the PP,” said Lucía Méndez, a leading Spanish journalist....
...She’s not a posh girl, she’s more of a street fighter,” says Lucía Méndez, a leading journalist....
...furore — set off by the government’s sacking of a top official in the gendarmerie-style Civil Guard and an investigation into a women’s day march — could barely come at a worse time for prime minister Pedro...
...“He fell for two reasons: women and money,” said Lucía Méndez, a leading Spanish journalist. “The women are a weakness of the Bourbons. But the Spanish monarchy is poor....
...“With Vox on their right [is the PP] really going to give Pedro Sánchez a gift so that he can govern?”...
...“If the PP adopts the language of Vox,” Ms Méndez asked, “why should people vote for them rather than the real thing?”...
...Pedro Passos Coelho, Portugal’s centre-right prime minister, said on Wednesday that a fall in exports in the third quarter was “largely due” to a separate longstanding strike by port workers....
...Elena Salgado, who replaced Pedro Solbes as finance minister in April last year, has so far been unable to convince Spanish business leaders and foreign investors that the socialist government is doing anything...
...Rogaciano Méndez of the National Union of Press Editors said: “Information is one of the main pillars in a democracy, and right now that pillar is being eroded.”...
...On Tuesday Mr Zapatero and Elena Salgado, the finance minister, met a group of European “wise men” – Jacques Delors, Pedro Solbes and Felipe González – for what was described as a brainstorming session in...
...Spain’s Elena Salgado – like Pedro Solbes, her predecessor – did the same....
...The 60-year-old Ms Salgado – who replaced the outspoken Pedro Solbes as finance minister after he grumbled too loudly about government overspending – has been given the double challenge of restoring health...
...Madrid has used most of its available fiscal stimulus ammunition in an attempt to stave off a full-scale depression – a disagreement with Mr Zapatero over this was behind the removal of the prudent Pedro...
...He handed the finance portfolio to Elena Salgado – a 59-year-old industrial engineer who had been minister of public administration – and dropped Pedro Solbes, a former European commissioner....
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