The Spanish parliament Friday, as expected, premiered Mariano Rajoy by adopting a vote of no confidence with 180 to 169 votes and one abstention. The motion was put to the vote by the socialist party PSOE after executives of Rajoy \u0026 # x27; s People's Party (PP) were sentenced to long prison sentences for corruption.
The Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has already said goodbye on Friday, although a vote on a vote of no confidence against him still had to take place. It was an honor for him to be Head of Government of Spain, he announced.
The leader of the Spanish right-wing Liberal movement Ciudadanos (Citizens), Albert Rivera, demanded new elections from Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. He said that he would otherwise consider supporting a vote of no confidence against Rajoy, which is being handled by the Socialist party PSOE Thursday and Friday in the Spanish House of Representatives, the Congress of Deputies.
Spanish rescue services and border guards picked up nearly 600 migrants out of a total of 18 boats from the sea this weekend, the Spanish news agency Europa Press reported. The migrants came from countries in North Africa and countries south of the Sahara.
Real Madrid has won the Champions League on Saturday for the third year in a row. In Kiev, Zinedine Zidane's team accounted for 3-1 with Liverpool from the Dutch team Virgil van Dijk and Georginio Wijnaldum.
Mistakes, masked hooligans, chaos at the airport, crying fans. The organization of the Champions League final in Kiev is so lousy that UEFA has announced its apologies and wants to prevent repetition, at all costs.
The authorities in the Ukrainian capital Kiev have closed five metro stations in connection with a bomb alert. Further information is still missing.
A Spanish court has condemned the pivot of a corruption scandal around the Spanish government party PP (People's Party), Francisco Correa, to almost 52 years in prison for fraud and money laundering. A former treasurer of the party, Luis Bárcenas, must according to the verdict over the age of 33 in the cell and 44 million euros fine, including tax evasion. His wife Rosalía Iglesias received cell as an accessory for fifteen years.
The Catalonia region still remains under Spanish curatorship. Article 155 is not lifted, as the new President Quim Torra, in the eyes of Prime Minister Rajoy, again seeks the confrontation with Madrid.
Catalan has, after months of political chaos- in all likelihood- a new prime minister: Quim Torra. But Madrid is certainly not pleased with this straw man from Puigdemont. Because Torra is again a separatist hardliner.
The Catalan former prime minister Carles Puigdemont has put forward a candidate to lead a new regional management. The separatist leader proposes to appoint politician Quim Torra as prime minister of Catalonia. So he is no longer a candidate himself.
The Spanish government wants to prevent through the courts that the fled Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is appointed regional leader while he is not there and is abroad. The Catalan parliament approved a bill last week that makes it possible to choose a regional prime minister who is not personally present.
The Catalan Parliament has approved a bill that should make it possible to choose a regional prime minister who is not personally present. As a result, former leader Carles Puigdemont (55) still comes into the picture to fulfill his old post again.
The Basque terrorist movement ETA says it has lifted itself. The group states in a letter that 'all structures have been completely dismantled and the political initiative has been terminated', said the newspaper El Diario. The letter is dated April 16.
The Spanish police have intercepted a record amount of cocaine. In a shipping container in the Spanish port city of Algeciras, nearly 9 tons of coke were found among the bananas, customs reported Wednesday.
The Basque terrorist movement ETA Friday apologized to its victims and their next of kin for half the century that they fought violently for an independent state in the north of Spain.
The former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is settled in Berlin and wants to remain in the German capital for the time being, pending a decision on his possible expulsion to Spain. He said that Saturday at a meeting with the press.
The Public Prosecution Service in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein has asked the authorities to hand over the Catalan separatist Carles Puigdemont to Spain. Spain issued a European arrest warrant last month.
An accident with an elephant transport in the southeast of Spain killed one of the animals. Two other elephants were injured when the truck crashed, the authorities report via Twitter.
The lawyers of former Catalan Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont and his former Minister Toni Comin have filed a complaint against a Spanish television channel.
Justin Kluivert (18) may call himself the greatest talent in the world. The Ajax striker received the NxGn award for best teen in the world (born on or after 1 January 1999) on Wednesday.
The former Minister of Education of the Spanish region of Catalonia has signed up with the Scottish police. Clara Ponsati, like the former leader Carles Puigdemont and a few other ministers, is wanted by the Spanish justice because they proclaimed independence from Catalonia.
More than ten members of the Spanish intelligence service CNI have watched the separatist leader from Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, on his journey from Finland to Germany. This has been confirmed by the authorities, according to the Spanish newspaper El País.
The Spanish Supreme Court is going to prosecute thirteen Catalan separatist leaders for rebellion. The thirteen, including the former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, were involved last year in the proclamation of a Catalan republic. There is a maximum prison sentence of 25 years in Spain for rebellion.
Tens of thousands of pensioners have demonstrated throughout Spain to raise their pensions. In the center of Madrid a huge crowd gathered Saturday despite the pouring rain. On banners were texts like: 'I am a pensioner, not an idiot!' And 'thieves! They steal our pensions! '
In riots in the center of Madrid ten police officers were injured and six arrests were made. Barricades were also raised during the disturbances, vandalism, fire and a shop looted, Spanish media reported.
The Spanish police arrested a man in Valencia who offered the head of an Iberian lynx for sale on the internet. The Iberian lynx is one of the rarest felines in the world. According to the Spanish news agency Europa Press, the 79-year-old man asked 400 euros for the head.
The prospective candidate for the premiership of the Spanish region of Catalonia, who is currently detained, is not allowed to leave his cell to attend the vote in parliament. It is Jordi Sánchez who was put forward as the replacement by the poignant leader Carles Puigdemont last month.
The former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont withdraws as a candidate for the presidency of Catalonia. According to El Nacional he does that Thursday. The Spanish newspaper relies on sources within the Puigdemont party.
The percentage of Catalans who are in favor of secession from Spain is declining sharply according to opinion pollers of the Catalan government. The Catalonian Center of Opini Studies (CEO) states that now 40.8 percent of respondents want independence and 53.9 percent want to stay with Spain.
