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1 day ago · Additional incompatibilities apply as per the Constitution and the Electoral Act (Article 70.1 CE). V. Organization 1. Governing Bodies A. President. The President is appointed by the members of the Constitutional Court in full for a term of three years, as per the Constitution (Article 160). Article 9 OLCC mandates a secret ballot in Parliament.
2 days ago · This article discusses the relation between colonialism and the sovereignty of peoples through a dialogue between Hegel and the thought of the French Revolution. These two sides are relevant to each other not only because of their historical proximity, but also because of the connections that can be established when we approach the topic of ...
5 days ago · When the Catalan parliament voted to declare independence from Spain on October 27, Rajoy responded by invoking Article 155 of the Spanish constitution, stripping the autonomous community of power and imposing direct rule from Madrid.
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- When did Mariano Rajoy become prime minister of Spain?Mariano Rajoy was sworn in as prime minister of Spain on December 21, 2011, and served until 2018.
- Where is Mariano Rajoy from?Mariano Rajoy is from Santiago de Compostela, Spain, where he was born on March 27, 1955.
- When was Mariano Rajoy removed from office?On June 1, 2018, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party leader, Pedro Sánchez, with the support of Catalan and Basque nationalist parties, ousted Mar...
3 days ago · The toxic interaction between law and politics goes both ways. Spanish courts regularly ban politicians from holding office, as happened to Quim Torra, who succeeded Puigdemont as Catalan president in 2018 after a short interregnum of direct rule by Madrid. The EU and the UN are also alarmed by Spain’s failure to renew the mandate of the ...
14 hours ago · Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...
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21 hours ago · 1 of 14 | . Former regional president Carles Puigdemont applauds during a campaign rally in Argelers, France, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Carles Puigdemont, Catalonia’s fugitive former leader, stares confidently out the backseat window of a car, the sun illuminating his gaze in a campaign poster for Sunday’s critical elections in the northeastern Spanish region.
1 day ago · Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a sovereign landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south. Believed to have been created by Charlemagne , Andorra was ruled by the count of Urgell until 988, when it was transferred to the Roman Catholic Diocese of ...
