Eugene Debs, center, imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Prison, was notified of his nomination for the presidency on the socialist ticket by a delegation of leading socialists who came from New York to Atlanta.
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Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.
Proclamation of the Second Republic in Spain. Crowds with banners and flags.
Archivo Baldomero y Aguayo, IPCE, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte
After the country’s municipal elections in May 2023, perceived as a plebiscite on the government, President Pedro Sánchez called for general elections.
Pedro Sánchez announcing that next general elections in Spain will be held the 23rd of July, 2023.
La Moncloa
Regional elections in Spain and the success of the right has made Pedro Sánchez bring forward general elections to the 23rd of July.
The leaders of Spain’s PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, and Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, shake hands after signing an accord to form a new coliation government.
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Spain’s proposed coalition could succeed, even without a majority in parliament.
The leaders of the PSOE, PP and Citizens simultaneously appeared before the media and their followers.
RTVE
Since 2015, Spanish politics has lived on a roller coaster. Catalonia, article 155, the motion of censure in the government, the rise of the far-right. The suspense, after this election, is assured.
Prime minister Pedro Sanchez addresses supporters after securing the largest share of the vote.
EPA/JuanJo Martin
Sánchez seeks to build alliances but not a formal coalition as the Socialists win but fall short of an absolute majority.
A woman take a photo at an election rally in Barcelona.
EPA/Alejandro Garcia
With the big parties under pressure from regional forces, it’s hard to see how anyone could form a government on April 28.
EPA/Alrberto Estevez
A strange coincidence of historical circumstances in Spain could, taken together, help to bring about a resolution to the crisis in Catalonia.
Protests in Barcelona on October 21 against the arrest of two Catalan nationalist leaders.
Toni Albir/EPA
Bid for Catalonian independence brings return of a divided Spain.
EPA/Arnold Jerrocki
Social democratic parties across the continent are struggling for different reasons. They can learn from each other to bounce back.
Podemos must reconsider who is above and who is below – who are the people and who are the people’s enemy.
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Podemos positioned itself as leading a revolt by the people against the political system. Now, as Spain’s third-largest party, it is part of that system and has some difficult decisions to make.
Mariano Rajoy is sworn in as prime minister.
EPA/Chema Moya
After two elections and months of deadlock, a minority administration has been agreed. But the situation is far from stable.
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Labour’s leader has a renewed mandate to put his party at the vanguard of the left – but others have walked that road before.
EPA/Mariscal
With two votes failing to produce a government, caretaker PM Mariano Rajoy is running out of options.
Sweet “victory”.
EPA/TAREK/PP
Spain couldn’t form a government after its last election, so it had to try again. And it looks like the radicals are shut out.
EPA/Morell
As Spain found out at its last election, voting for change is one thing, but achieving it is quite another.
EPA/Javier Lizon
Parliamentarians have again failed to form a coalition, nearly three months after the election.
The PP, celebrating while it can.
Reuters/Marcelo del Pozo
Spain’s two-party system is now consigned to the history books – but forming a functional government will be anything but easy.
Spain’s ruling People’s Party is predicted to win the election – but not by much.
Reuters/Andrea Comas
Spain’s era of two-party government is coming to an end – but what exactly happens next is far from clear.
Here goes nothing.
Reuters/Gustau Nacarino
Catalonia’s pro-independence parties now have the chance to assemble a parliamentary majority, but they’ll have to overcome their own differences first.