Spanish elections

Are Spanish election results market friendly?

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

Mariano Rajoy’s PP or people’s party party won last Sunday’s election by a majority vote. Spaniards are now asking what is going to happen regarding Spain’s debt as a lot of it will be refinanced in 2012. Catalonia will not escape Rajoy’s wrath as cut…

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Spanish early elections add pressure on Catalan parties

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Finally Mr. Zapatero made the long-awaited announcement: the Spanish elections will be hold November 20th, four months before the end of the current government’s mandate in March. For Catalan political parties this is no surprise, but it certainl…

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PP is set and ready to play with fire

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Last weekend the Partido Popular celebrated its 2011 convention in Sevilla, which provided the media with plenty of headlines. Mariano Rajoy, the PP candidate to the Spanish presidency as well as other leaders of the party such as Javier Arenas or Jaim…

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