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2023–2024 Spanish Protests
The 2023–2024 Spanish protests against Catalan amnesty were a series of protests which began in October 2023, resulting from the announced negotiations of then-acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez's Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) with former president of the Government of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont's Together for Catalonia (2020), Together for Catalonia (Junts) party. These negotiations were aimed at forming a governing coalition after the 2023 Spanish general election. Alberto Núñez Feijóo's People's Party (Spain), People's Party (PP), failed to form a government as they could not muster enough support to reach a parliamentary majority. After Feijóo failed in his investiture vote, King Felipe VI tasked Sánchez with forming a government. The distribution of seats, after the election resulted in Sánchez being required to rely on Junts (with seven seats in the Congress of Deputies at the time) to vote in his favor to be able to form a government. Junts had not sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Spanish Government Formation
Attempts to form a government in Spain followed the Spanish general election of 23 July 2023, which failed to deliver an overall majority for any political party. As a result, the Second government of Pedro Sánchez, previous cabinet headed by Pedro Sánchez was forced to remain in a Caretaker government, caretaker capacity for 116 days until the next government could be sworn in. The election failed to provide a majority for either the left-wing bloc, comprising the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Sumar (electoral platform), Sumar, with the support of the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), EH Bildu, the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), or the right-wing bloc, comprising the People's Party (Spain), People's Party (PP), Vox (political party), Vox, the Navarrese People's Union (UPN), and Canarian Coalition (CCa). As a result, Together for Catalonia (2020), Together for Catalonia (Junts) was left as the kingmaker in negotiations. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
