Spain’s next PM seeks financial info before acting

Spain’s leader-in-waiting will resist international pressure to reveal detailed economic plans while he searches for financial skeletons in the closet and courts the opposition, party officials and analysts said on Wednesday. Mariano Rajoy, known as a cautious public administrator, won Sunday’s election by a landslide as voters threw out a seven-year-old Socialist government blamed for sky-high unemployment and economic malaise. The Centre-right People’s Party (PP) leader campaigned on promises to restore confidence on financial markets Continue reading Spain’s next PM seeks financial info before acting

Spain’s King left with black eye after walking into a door – Telegraph

King Juan Carlos of Spain appeared in public sporting a black eye after “walking into a door” at his royal residence. The 73-year-old monarch was pictured with the shiner on his left eye and a small sticking plaster on the bridge of his nose at a reception for new ambassadors to Spain on Tuesday. Royal aides said the King had received the injuries earlier in the day but they were not serious enough to alter Continue reading Spain’s King left with black eye after walking into a door – Telegraph