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SPAIN’s prime minister Pedro Sanchez floated a proposal to include abortion in the constitution of the nation amid fears a future government of right-wingers would try to limit women’s reproductive rights. The idea comes just days after a bitter political row broke out in Madrid over a proposal backed by the conservative Partido Popular (PP) and far-right Vox which would …

SPAIN’S prime minister Pedro Sanchez has doubled down on his support for the thousands of pro-Palestine protesters who forced the cancellation of the final stage of the Vuelta a España – Spain’s equivalent of the Tour de France. Sanchez, speaking the day following the abandonment of the Vuelta’s grand finale midway after an estimated 100 000 people invaded Madrid and …

A JUDGE IN SPAIN has ordered that a woman, who falsely accused an extreme right-wing politician sexual assault, stand trial.  Carlos Huge Fernandez Roca could have faced up to five years in prison for Maria del Valle Robles’s now-debunked allegations.  The Provincial Court of Justice of Madrid exonerated the MP of the right-wing Vox party in 2022 after he was …