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2018–2023 Spanish Institutional Crisis
The General Council of the Judiciary blockade was a constitutional crisis that has resulted in the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), the governing body of the Judiciary in Spain not being able to fulfill its functions due to the inability of the Spanish Parliament (Cortes Generales) to agree on the appointment of a new council since the term of the last council expired in 2018. The most serious of these functions in abeyance are the selection of the President of the Supreme Court and the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court. The Council has a term of five years, after which all 20 members of the council must be re-appointed. The law requires that a three fifths majority is required in the Congress for their appointment, which usually means that a consensus must be reached between the Government and the Opposition. The Opposition has refused to do so principally on the grounds that they want to change the method of appointment (to allow so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sede Del C
Sede may refer to: People * Gérard de Sède * Marc Dion Sédé (born 1987), Ivorian football player Places * Sede, Ethiopia * Sede, district of Santa Maria Sede ("Seat") is a district of the municipality of Santa Maria, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is situated in the north portion of Santa Maria. Downtown Santa Maria is one of its bairros (neighbourhoods). The district of Sede ..., Brazil Other * SEDE, the Subcommittee on Security and Defence of the European Parliament See also * Sde (other) * SDE (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El País
(; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . is the most read newspaper in Spanish online and one of the Madrid dailies considered to be a national newspaper of record for Spain (along with '' El Mundo'' and '' ABC)''. In 2018, its number of daily sales were 138,000. Its headquarters and central editorial staff are located in Madrid, although there are regional offices in the principal Spanish cities (Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Bilbao, and Santiago de Compostela) where regional editions were produced until 2015. also produces a world edition in Madrid that is available online in English and in Spanish (Latin America). History was founded in May 1976 by a team at PRISA which included Jesus de Polanco, José Ortega Spottorno and Carlos Mendo. The paper was designed by Reinhard Gade and Julio Alonso. It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Spanish General Election
A General elections in Spain, general election was held in Spain on Sunday, 9 March 2008, to elect the members of the 9th . All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 264 seats in the Senate of Spain, Senate. After four years of growing Two-party system, bipolarisation of Spanish politics, the election saw a record result for both ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and opposition People's Party (Spain), People's Party (PP), together obtaining more than 83% of the vote share—over 21 million votes—and 92% of the Congress seats. The PSOE under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero benefitted from tactical voting against the PP and emerged as the most-voted party just 7 seats short of an overall majority. On the other hand, Mariano Rajoy's PP saw an increase in its vote share and seat count but remained unable to overtake the Socialists. United Left (Spain), United Left (IU) had its worst general election performance ever with less than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariano Rajoy
Mariano Rajoy Brey (, ; born 27 March 1955) is a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 2011 to 2018, when a 2018 vote of no confidence in the government of Mariano Rajoy, vote of no confidence ousted his government. A member of the People's Party (Spain), People's Party, he served as the president of the People's Party from 2004 to 2018. Rajoy became prime minister in 2011 following the his party's landslide victory in that year's 2011 Spanish general election, general election, becoming the sixth president of the Spanish Government since Spanish transition to democracy, the restoration of democracy. The party lost its majority in the 2015 Spanish general election, 2015 general election, but after that election ended in deadlock, a 2016 Spanish general election, second election in 2016 enabled Rajoy to be reelected prime minister as head of a minority government. Rajoy was a minister under the José María Aznar administration, occupying different leadin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (; born 4 August 1960) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was the Prime Minister of Spain being elected for two terms, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections. On 2 April 2011 he announced he would not stand for re-election in the 2011 general election and left office on 21 December 2011. Among the main actions taken by the Zapatero administration were the withdrawal of Spanish troops from the Iraq war, the increase of Spanish troops in Afghanistan; the idea of an Alliance of Civilizations; the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Spain; reform of abortion law; a peace negotiation attempt with ETA; the end of ETA terrorism; increase of tobacco restrictions; and the reform of various autonomous statutes, particularly the Statute of Catalonia. Biography Family background and early life José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was born in Valladolid, Castile and León, to Juan Rodríguez y García-L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Spanish General Election
A General elections in Spain, general election was held in Spain on Sunday, 3 March 1996, to elect the members of the 6th . All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 257 seats in the Senate of Spain, Senate. Ever since forming a minority government after its victory in the 1993 Spanish general election, 1993 election, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) had to deal with the impact of the early 1990s recession in the Spanish economy, amid soaring unemployment, an increase in public deficit and Recession, GDP contraction. The Fourth government of Felipe González, cabinet of Prime Minister of Spain, Prime Minister Felipe González was also rocked by the unveiling of a string of corruption scandals, including accusations of funding state terrorism through the GAL (paramilitary group), GAL, the Embezzlement, misuse of public funds to pay for undeclared bonuses to high-ranking officials, tax evasion by former and current cabinet members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leader Of The Opposition (Spain)
The leader of the opposition () is an unofficial, mostly Constitutional convention (political custom), conventional and honorary title frequently (but not exclusively) held by the leader of the largest party in the Congress of Deputies (Spain), Congress of Deputies—the lower house of the Spain, Spanish parliament, the Cortes Generales—not within the government. They are usually the person who is expected to lead that party into the next general election. From 31 October 2016 to 18 June 2017, the title was disputed between the two largest parties in the left, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Podemos (Spanish political party), Podemos. The position was left nominally vacant after Mariano Rajoy's government was ousted in a 2018 vote of no confidence in the government of Mariano Rajoy, motion of no confidence on 2 June 2018, until the 19th National Congress of the People's Party (Spain), election of Pablo Casado as new PP leader. From 23 February 2022, the position ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José María Aznar
José María Alfredo Aznar López (; born 25 February 1953) is a Spanish politician who was the prime minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He led the People's Party (Spain), People's Party (PP), the dominant centre-right political party in Spain. A member of the Frente de Estudiantes Sindicalistas, a dissident Falangism, Falangist student organisation, in his youth, he studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid and first worked in the public sector as an Inspector of the Finances of the State (). He joined the People's Alliance (Spain), People's Alliance, which was re-founded as the People's Party in 1989. He led the Junta of Castile and León from 1987 to 1989 and was Leader of the Opposition (Spain), Leader of the Opposition at the national level from 1989 to 1996. In 1995, he survived an assassination attempt from the Basque separatist group ETA (separatist group), ETA. The People's Party, led by Aznar, won the most parliamentary seats at the 1996 Spanish general el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of Spain
The prime minister of Spain, officially president of the Government (), is the head of government of Spain. The prime minister nominates the Spanish government departments, ministers and chairs the Council of Ministers (Spain), Council of Ministers. In this sense, the prime minister establishes the Government of Spain, Government policies and coordinates the actions of the Cabinet members. As chief executive, the prime minister also advises the Monarchy of Spain, monarch on the exercise of their royal prerogatives. Although it is not possible to determine when the position actually originated, the office of prime minister evolved throughout history to what it is today. The role of prime minister (then called Secretary of State) as president of the Council of Ministers, first appears in a royal decree of 1824 by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, Ferdinand VII. The current office was established during the reign of Juan Carlos I, in the Constitution of Spain, 1978 Constitution, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felipe González
Felipe González Márquez (; born 5 March 1942) is a retired Spanish politician who was Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996 and leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party from 1974 to 1997. He is the longest-serving democratically-elected Prime Minister of Spain. González joined the PSOE in 1964 when it was banned under the Francoist regime. He obtained a law degree from the University of Seville in 1965. In 1974, the PSOE elected González as its Secretary-General after a split in its 26th Congress. He led the party through the Spanish transition to democracy, carrying it to a strong second-place finish in the 1977 Spanish general election, 1977 general election, making the PSOE the main opposition to the ruling Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain), Union of the Democratic Centre, a position it maintained in 1979 Spanish general election, 1979. After the PSOE victory in the 1982 Spanish general election, 1982 general election, González formed his first majorit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Branch
A legislature (, ) is a deliberative assembly with the authority, legal authority to make laws for a Polity, political entity such as a Sovereign state, country, nation or city on behalf of the people therein. They are often contrasted with the Executive (government), executive and Judiciary, judicial powers of government. Legislatures can exist at different levels of government–national, state/provincial/regional, local, even supranational (such as the European Parliament). Countries differ as to what extent they grant deliberative assemblies at the subnational law-making power, as opposed to purely administrative responsibilities. Laws enacted by legislatures are usually known as Primary and secondary legislation, primary legislation. In addition, legislatures may observe and steer governing actions, with authority to amend the budget involved. The members of a legislature are called legislators. In a democracy, legislators are most commonly popularly Election, elected, al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felipe González Recibe Al Lider Del Partido Popular Para Tratar El Traspaso De Poderes
Felipe is the Spanish variant of the name Philip, which derives from the Greek adjective ''Philippos'' "friend of horses". Felipe is also widely used in Portuguese-speaking Brazil alongside Filipe, the form commonly used in Portugal. Noteworthy people with this name include: Royalty * Felipe I of Spain * Felipe II of Spain * Felipe III of Spain * Felipe IV of Spain * Felipe V of Spain * Felipe VI of Spain, King of Spain * Felipe de Marichalar y Borbón, nephew of the Spanish king Others * Felipe Calderón, former President of Mexico * Felipe Herrera, Chilean economist * Felipe Zúniga del Cid (born 1948), Honduran politician * FELIPE may refer to the Popular Liberation Front in Spain Sports Football * Felipe (footballer, born 1977) (Felipe Jorge Loureiro), Brazilian footballer * Felipe (footballer, born 1978) (Felipe Reinaldo da Silva), Brazilian footballer * Felipe (footballer, born February 1984) (Luiz Felipe Ventura dos Santos), Brazilian footballer * Felipe (football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
