When José Luis Ábalos filed the motion of no confidence, candidate Pedro Sánchez probably not only did not have all the odds in his favor (never before had a leader of the Executive been ousted), but he certainly did not expect to become seven years, 11 months, and 13 days...
"I didn't have time". This week marked the centenary of the birth of Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo (1926-2008), who was President of the Government between 1981 and 1982. 645 days in Moncloa that earned him the record for the shortest-serving president in democracy. In his Memoria viva de la Transición, a work in...
During Holy Week of 1977, Spain projected itself before the world as a budding democracy. In the same way, months earlier, the attitude of the PCE during the funeral of the victims of the Atocha attacks had endowed it with legitimacy before public opinion. That April 9, which has gone down in...