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Borja Sémper
Francisco de Borja Sémper Pascual (born 10 January 1976) is a Spanish People's Party (PP) politician. He was a city councillor in the Basque cities of Irun (1995–2010) and San Sebastián (2019–2020) and a member of the Basque Parliament (2003–2020), serving as party spokesman in the latter chamber from 2013. A member of the PP from the age of 17 and a target for violence by ETA, he left politics in January 2020 to work for Ernst & Young, but returned three years later to lead the PP's election campaigns and was elected to the Congress of Deputies. Biography Born in Irun, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Sémper joined the People's Party (PP) at the age of 17. He faced at least two assassination attempts from ETA due to his activism, one of which failed in 1997 because he missed his class at the University of the Basque Country, where he was studying for a law degree. In the New Generations of the People's Party, he formed a friendship with Santiago Abascal, who was voted the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Spanish Local Elections
The 1995 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect all 65,869 councillors in the 8,067 municipalities of Spain and all 1,034 seats in 38 provincial deputations. The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities, as well as local elections in the three foral deputations of the Basque Country and the ten island councils in the Balearic and Canary Islands. Electoral system ;Municipal elections Municipalities in Spain were local corporations with independent legal personality. They had a governing body, the municipal council or corporation, composed of a mayor, deputy mayors and a plenary assembly of councillors. Voting for the local assemblies was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen, registered in the corresponding municipality and in full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote. The mayor was in turn elected by the plenary assembly, with a legal clause providing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Javier García Gaztelu
Francisco Javier García Gaztelu (12 February 1966), alias "Txapote", is a Basque separatist terrorist who is responsible for the assassination of several Basque politicians. He is also known by the aliases ''Perretxiko, Jon'', ''Xabier'', and ''Otsagi'', among others. He was part of the "hard wing" of ETA and never showed any sign of repentance for his actions or condemned those of the group. Arrested in 2001, he currently serves multiple sentences, adding up to 500 years of imprisonment. Criminal activities Txapote began his career, like many ETA activists, through Kale borroka urban violence. He was sentenced to one year in prison for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a French car dealership in his home town of Galdacano in 1987. He later joined ETA's Vizcaya commando until an August 1991 shootout in Bilbao with the Basque regional police, during which fellow ''etara'' Juan María Ormazábal (''Turko'') was killed, along with officer Alfonso Mentxaka. Txapote then fled into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let Txapote Vote For You
"Let Txapote vote for you" (; full version: , "Let Txapote vote for you, Sánchez!") is a List of political slogans, political slogan that is popular among the political right and far-right in Spain during the months prior to the 2023 Spanish general election, 2023 general elections. It is commonly used against Prime Minister of Spain, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and mentions the ETA (separatist group), ETA terrorist Francisco Javier García Gaztelu (nicknamed "Txapote"). Political context After the 2019 Spanish general election, general elections of November 2019 and the start of the 14th Cortes Generales, 14th legislature, acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, PSOE) required the abstention of the leading political parties of the nationalist left, the Catalans, Catalan Republican Left of Catalonia, ERC and Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque EH Bildu, in order to form his Second government of Pedro Sánchez, second government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Sánchez
Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (; born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has served as Prime Minister of Spain since 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since July 2017, having previously held that office from 2014 to 2016, and has also been serving as the ninth Socialist International#Presidents, president of the Socialist International in 2022. Sánchez began his political career in August 2004 as a city councillor in Madrid, before being elected to the Congress of Deputies in 2009. In 2014, he was elected Secretary-General of the PSOE, becoming Leader of the Opposition (Spain), Leader of the Opposition. He led the party through the inconclusive 2015 Spanish general election, 2015 and 2016 Spanish general election, 2016 general elections, but resigned as Secretary-General shortly after the latter, following 2016 PSOE crisis, public disagreements with the party's executive. He was re-elected in a 2017 Spanish Soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vanguardia
' (; , ) is a Spanish daily newspaper founded in 1881. It is printed in Spanish and, since 3 May 2011, also in Catalan. It has its headquarters in Barcelona and is Catalonia's leading newspaper. Despite being mostly distributed in Catalonia, ' is Spain's fourth-highest circulation among general-interest newspapers, trailing only the three main Madrid-based ones – ', ' and '' ABC'' – all of which are national newspapers with offices and local editions throughout the country. The newspaper's editorial line leans to the centre of politics and is moderate in its opinions, but Francoist Spain, it followed Francoist ideology. It retains Catholic sensibilities and strong ties to the Spanish nobility through the Godó family. History and profile Beginnings On 1 February 1881 in Barcelona, two businessmen from Igualada, Carlos and Bartolomé Godó, first published the paper. It was defined as a ''Diario político de avisos y notícias'' (Political Newspaper of Announcements and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Spanish Regional Elections
Regional elections were held in Spain during 2023 to elect the regional parliaments of twelve of the seventeen autonomous communities—Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castilla–La Mancha, Extremadura, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre and the Valencian Community—and the two autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. 737 of 1,212 seats in the regional parliaments were up for election, as well as the 50 seats in the regional assemblies of the autonomous cities. The elections were held on 28 May 2023 (simultaneously with local elections all throughout the country). The results produced a landslide victory for the right-of-centre political forces, erasing all the gains made by the ruling Socialist Party in 2015 and 2019. The right recovered power of several regions and even broke through progressive strongholds such as Extremadura, with the PSOE only holding power in Castilla–La Mancha, Asturias and Navarre. This outcome prompted Prime Mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Spanish Local Elections
The 2023 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect all 66,976 councillors in the municipalities of Spain, all 1,191 provincial seats in 41 provinces (including 38 indirectly-elected provincial deputations and the three directly-elected Basque General Assemblies) and 233 seats in eleven island councils (seven Canarian island cabildos and four Balearic island councils, all directly-elected). The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities. The elections took place following a period of instability dominated by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 and its political and economical consequences, including the worst worldwide recession since the Great Depression resulting from the massive lockdowns enforced to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2, as well as the economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The People's Party (PP) emerged as the first political force and was able to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Núñez Feijóo
Alberto Núñez Feijóo (, ; born 10 September 1961) is a Spanish politician who serves as Member of the Congress of Deputies and as president of the People's Party (Spain), People's Party. He served as the president of the Regional Government of Galicia, President of the Autonomous Government of Galicia from 2009 to 2022. Feijóo was appointed Formateur, government formateur following the 2023 Spanish general election, 2023 election, however his 2023 Spanish government formation#Candidate Alberto Núñez Feijóo (PP), investiture ultimately failed. Formerly a civil servant, Feijóo was secretary general of Galicia's ministries of agriculture and health before moving to the same role at the national Ministry of Health (Spain), Ministry of Health, and for three years he was Correos, President of the State Society of Mail and Telegraphs. Having officially joined the People's Party of Galicia (PPdeG), he entered the Parliament of Galicia in 2005 and succeeded Manuel Fraga as party p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Spanish Local Elections
The 2019 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect all 66,979 councillors in the 8,131 municipalities of Spain and all 1,038 seats in 38 provincial deputations. The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities, as well as elections in the three foral deputations of the Basque Country, the four island councils in the Balearic Islands, the seven island cabildos in the Canary Islands and the European Parliament. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), invigorated from its general election win the previous month, emerged as the largest political party in the elections overall for the first time since 2007, scoring first place in the popular vote for the first time since 2003 and achieving its largest margin of victory over the People's Party (PP) since the 1991 elections. Conversely, the PP scored its worst result in local elections in Spain since the People's Alliance result in 1987, but managed to ... [...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] |
Citizens (Spanish Political Party)
Citizens ( Spanish: ; ; shortened as Cs—C's until January 2017), officially Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (''Ciudadanos–Partido de la Ciudadanía'', CS), is a liberal political party in Spain. The party has been located in the centre to centre-right of the political spectrum. Citizens' political ideology was initially unclear beyond a strong opposition to Catalan independence and Catalan nationalism in general. The party initially presented itself as left-of-centre, holding social democratic and progressive liberal positions; however, it removed any mention of social democracy from its platform in February 2017, moving closer to the political centre. By 2018, it was judged by commentators to have drifted further away from the left, as its focus shifted to competing against the People's Party (PP) as the leading party of the Spanish right. Despite describing itself as postnationalist, it has been deemed by journalists and academics as professing a Spanish nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
