Electoral authority stops jailed leader from joining televised EU election debate
Board also bars exiled former minister Toni Comín
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Supreme Court to allow jailed MPs to take up seats but refuses their release
Trial unaffected as judges opt not to ask Spain's parliament for permission to continue proceedings
Torra's first 12 months as Catalan president
Elected the 131st President of Catalonia a year ago, Quim Torra insists that an independent republic is "the only possible way forward"
Jailed and exiled politicians to take part in European election TV debate
Electoral authority gives green light for Junqueras and Comín to participate via video link, with Puigdemont also demanding to appear
“Stop Vox” - The cross-party manifesto against the far-right
Unity Against Fascism and Racism brings together representatives from Esquerra, BComú, Socialists, Junts per Catalunya, and CUP
Local elections: Battle for the left in Barcelona
Pro-independence Ernest Maragall is hoping to depose progressive rival Ada Colau, who has remained equivocal on the Catalan question
Puigdemont to give up presidency bid if elected MEP
Former president would take post in European Parliament, and challenges Spain to “respect European rule of law” and accept him to take office
Colau wants to create 50 new hectares of green space, warns “the right will not face the lobbies” to fight pollution
The BComú candidate warns the Socialists that with Valls as mayor, they will not be able to make the changes the city needs
How Europe will be the next battleground in the Catalan independence question
From "making voters’ voices heard", to "defending Spanish interests": how parties see their role on the independence question in Brussels
Ada Colau calls on voters to concentrate the 'progressive vote' in her party
Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias hails Ada Colau’s Barcelona as the example for “when we govern”
Arrimadas calls for big cities to become ‘bastions of the constitutionalism’
Catalan Ciutadans leader wants to "curb separatism" and bets on the Barcelona-L’Hospitalet “tandem” to spearhead the efforts
Battle for independence movement hegemony reemerges in European election
Catalan voters expected to express overwhelming support for EU despite rise of far-right Euroscepticism elsewhere on the continent
Former Spanish vice president and Socialist party leader dies
With a career spanning five political terms, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba was key in negotiating Catalonia's statute of autonomy
Independence 'No' vote surpasses 'Yes' for first time since 2017, suggests public poll
New survey by Center for Opinion Studies indicates 48.6% against Catalonia splitting from Spain compared to 47.2% in favor
Campaigns for local and European elections get underway
On Sunday May 26, voters in Catalonia and all over Spain will get to choose political representatives to sit in town halls and in Brussels
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