What’s going on around the Terres de l’Ebre – in English
Today, 21 December, Catalans vote for a new government in the Catalan elections. This follows the Catalan declaration of independence on 27 October which was quickly quashed by Spain’s prime minister Mariano Rajoy. He sacked the Catalan government, using a section of the Spanish constitution called Article 155, and called fresh elections. Several of Catalunya’s…
The UK government has failed to pass a law in time to give long-term expats the right to vote in the forthcoming general election. This is in spite of an earlier pledge to give Britons “votes for life”, wherever they live. Under current rules, Britons lose their right to vote in the UK once they have lived…
A new general election will be held in Spain on 26 June 2016 after none of the political parties succeeded in forming a majority government. The election of 20 December 2015 was inconclusive. Mariano Rajoy (pictured) of the Popular Party became acting president and months of negotiations between the political parties ensued to try to…
