The Latest Breaking News from PP

Socialist Spanish politician wins backing to be PM again, after a controversial agreement with Catalan separatists.

MPs vote Sánchez in for second term by 179 votes to 171 but People’s Party says result comes after ‘huge assault on the rule of law’

Pedro Sánchez manages to secure necessary votes by enlisting support of Catalan and Basque nationalists after months of deadlock

Editorial: Spain’s caretaker prime minister has cut a controversial deal to stay in power. It is in the country’s interest that it succeeds

PP says clemency offer for separatists demands similar action to that taken over rule-of-law concerns elsewhere in the bloc

Tens of thousands of people rally against government offer of clemency to those who made illegal push for independence in 2017

Alejo Vidal-Quadras – who had also led the conservative Popular Party in Catalonia – was shot in Madrid hours after Spain’s acting prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, agreed a controversial deal between his Socialist Party and a Catalan separatist party that is set to give him another term in office

Alejo Vidal-Quadras, formerly of PP and Vox, reportedly in stable condition after attack by masked gunman

Agreement has triggered protests and main opposition party condemns it as ‘shameful and humiliating’.