Tag: Las Delicias

• March 15, 2023

  History of Pride in Madrid: Socialist government of Pedro Sánchez (2018 – 2023)

  

  A motion of no confidence by PSOE was registered with the Congreso de Diputados on 25 May 2018 after the Audiencia Nacional found Partido Popular profited from illegal kickbacks-for-contracts during the Gürtel case.  Spanish law only allows for such a motion to be put through if an alternative candidate for president is also nominated at…
• March 15, 2023

  History of Pride in Madrid: Conservative government of Mariano Rajoy (2011 – 2018)

  

  Spain held general elections on 20 November 2011, called five months early by President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero on 29 July 2011 in response to a deteriorating economic situation. Partido Popular went into the elections leading in the polls, and eventually finishing with 44.6% of the vote, up from 40.1% in the 2008 elections. The…