2022 in Spain
Events in the year 2022 in Spain.
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Incumbents
- Monarch: Felipe VI
- Prime Minister: Pedro Sánchez
- President of the Congress of Deputies: Meritxell Batet
- President of the Senate of Spain: Pilar Llop
- President of the Supreme Court: Carlos Lesmes
- President of the Constitutional Court: Juan José González Rivas
- Attorney General: Dolores Delgado
- Chief of the Defence Staff: Teodoro Esteban López Calderón
- President of the Episcopal Conference: Juan José Omella
- Sánchez II Government
Regional presidents
- Andalusia: Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla
- Aragón: Javier Lambán
- Asturias: Adrián Barbón
- Balearic Islands: Francina Armengol
- Basque Country: Iñigo Urkullu
- Canary Islands: Ángel Víctor Torres
- Cantabria: Miguel Ángel Revilla
- Castilla–La Mancha: Emiliano García-Page
- Castile and León: Alfonso Fernández Mañueco
- Catalonia: Pere Aragonès
- Extremadura: Guillermo Fernández Vara
- Galicia: Alberto Núñez Feijóo
- La Rioja: Concha Andreu
- Community of Madrid: Isabel Díaz Ayuso
- Region of Murcia: Fernando López Miras
- Navarre: María Chivite
- Valencian Community: Ximo Puig
- Ceuta: Juan Jesús Vivas
- Melilla: Eduardo de Castro
Events
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
- 19 January – Six people are killed in a fire at a nursing home in Moncada, Valencia.[1]
February
- 13 February - The Far Right Vox party comes third in the 2022 Castilian-Leonese regional election, raising its representation from 1 up to 13 seats, and becoming the key player for the rival People's Party (PP), who won the elections, to form a government.[2][3] Following this election result, and an unfolding leadership crisis in PP,[4] Vox for the first time was recognized as the Spain's second political force, according to some opinion polls for the next general elections.[5]
March
- 10 March, Vox forms a government with the People's Party in Castile and León, taking three of ten ministerial positions including vice president for regional leader Juan García-Gallardo. This is the first time that Vox forms a part of a government in Spain and the first time that a Far Right party is in government since the 1970s.[6] Vox member Carlos Pollán was elected President of the Cortes of Castile and León, the position of speaker.[7]
References
- "Nursing home fire kills 6, hospitalizes 17 in eastern Spain". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- "Resultados provisionales. Castilla y León". Junta of Castile and León.
- "Spanish regional elections leads far-right party to record results". euractiv.com. 14 February 2022.
- "DIRECTO | Última hora de la crisis en el Partido Popular". El Diario. 18 February 2022.
- "ElectoPanel 22F". ElectoMania. 22 February 2022.
- "Far-right gains first share of power in Spain since Franco". Reuters. 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- "Vox speaker in Spain's Castilla y Leon regional parliament". ANSA. 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
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