Spanish lawyer Miriam Gonzalez Durantez has launched a new political party, Democracy21, ahead of the country’s snap general election scheduled for November 29. The party plans to field candidates in Madrid and Barcelona, promising to bridge ideological divisions, strengthen democratic values and depoliticise public institutions. Gonzalez Durantez, who is married to
Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old Spanish pensioner whose eviction became a symbol of the country’s housing crisis, has died, according to Madrid’s Tenants’ Union. She was forcibly removed from her Madrid apartment on a stretcher on 23 September after being unable to afford a sharp increase in rent. Abascal had lived in the apartment for more […]
Spain’s government has approved two housing decrees that were at the centre of the political dispute leading Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to call a snap election. The measures include rent caps, a temporary ban on evictions and restrictions on corporate purchases of residential property. Sanchez said the policies were aimed at protecting vulnerable people and […]


