Politics & People news & information for Madrid

AROUND 200 people staged a protest outside the national PP headquarters last night (Friday) over president Mariano Rajoy's answers given in court two days earlier when called as a witness in the Gürtel corruption...

THOUSANDS of members of the public gathered in the centre of Madrid today (Saturday) to show their support for Podemos' no-confidence motion against president Mariano Rajoy and the PP – which Podemos itself says...

SPAIN'S Venezuelan ambassador complained he was being 'held hostage' by a protest surrounding an expat cultural centre in Madrid staged by opponents of the South American country's president, Nicolás...

LEFT-WING party Podemos has launched a new campaign bus denouncing PP politicians accused of corruption and has started driving it around the streets of Madrid.

BRITISH and European Union citizens 'must not be used as bargaining chips' in the Brexit negotiations, stressed Maltese president Joseph Muscat at a summit in Madrid yesterday (Monday).

MADRID'S mayoress Manuela Carmena has asked Hollywood actor Richard Gere to invite the Dalai Lama to a conference in the city.

More than 10,000 people have gathered at the Puerta del Sol in Madrid to demand political and social change.

The Infanta Elena, eldest daughter of the King and Queen of Spain, is now officially divorced from Jaime de Marichalar, after legal notice was entered into the Civil Register of the Royal Family on January 21st and made...

Parliament approved the government's new Historical Memory Bill this morning despite the opposition of the PP and ERC parties.

The socialist PSOE party is apparently intent on introducing a bill aimed at giving apes the same rights as man, "and the immediate inclusion of these animals as people." As a result, the bill adds that apes...

As the 25th anniversary approaches, and with mounting unrest among the ranks of the military over president Zapatero's social and statutory reform programme, we take a look back at the failed military coup on the...

The Partido Popular´s Research Foundation (FAES), which is presided over by ex-president José María Aznar, presented a video this morning which, they claim, portrays what actually happened between the Atocha bomb...