2018 in Spain
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Events in the year 2018 in Spain.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Felipe VI[1]
- Prime Minister: Mariano Rajoy until June 1
Pedro Sánchez (since June 1)
Regional presidents
- Andalusia: Susana Diaz
- Aragón: Javier Lambán
- Asturias: Javier Fernandez
- Balearic Islands: Francina Armengol
- Basque Country: Iñigo Urkullu
- Canary Islands: Fernando Clavijo Batlle
- Cantabria: Miguel Ángel Revilla
- Castilla–La Mancha: Emiliano García-Page
- Castile and León: Juan Vicente Herrera
- Catalonia: Quim Torra
- Extremadura: Guillermo Fernández Vara
- Galicia: Alberto Núñez Feijóo
- La Rioja: José Ignacio Ceniceros
- Community of Madrid: Cristina Cifuentes (until 25 April), Ángel Garrido (starting 25 April)
- Region of Murcia: Fernando López Miras
- Navarre: Uxue Barkos
- Valencian Community: Ximo Puig
- Ceuta: Juan Jesús Vivas
- Melilla: Juan José Imbroda
Events
- Ongoing – 2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis
- 8 March – 2018 Spanish women's strike.[2]
- 10 June – Human Chain for Basque Self-determination, 2018.[3]
- 12 June – the ship Aquarius carrying 629 migrants that were rescued near Libya was denied entry to the Sicilian port by Italy's new interior minister Matteo Salvini and Malta.[4][5] The Spanish government offered the Aquarius the chance to dock in the secure port of Valencia, Spain and the Italian navy offered full assistance and a marine escort for the trip.[6][7]
- 4 July – the Spanish Government accepted another NGO vessel, in this case a Spanish NGO called Open Arms carrying 60 migrants after Italy and Malta rejected again open a port for the ship.[8] The same happened two weeks later.[9]
- 18 September – The sixth floor of the Hotel Ritz in Madrid collapses resulting in the death of one person while 11 others are injured. [10]
- 19 September – The Mossos d'Esquadra arrests in Tarrassaa man for planning the assassination of the Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez who was, angry with the plans to exhume Franco.
- 2 December – Vox 's results in the 2018 Andalusian regional election with 12 seats and 11% of the votes signalled the first time a far-right party had won seats in a regional parliament in Spain since the country's return to democracy, following the death of longtime dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.[11][12]
- 4 December – A Spanish institutional crisis surrounding the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) begins.[13]
Deaths
- 1 January – Manuel Olivencia, economist and diplomat (b. 1929).[14]
- 9 January – Victoriano Ríos Pérez, physician and politician (b. 1930)
- 14 January – Pablo García Baena, poet (b. 1921)
- 22 January – Emilio Gastón, politician, lawyer, and poet (b. 1935)
- 7 April – Ángel Peralta Pineda, rejoneador (b. 1926).[15]
- 18 April – Luisa Pastor Lillo, politician (b. 1948)
- 24 April – Victor Garaigordóbil Berrizbeitia, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1915)
- 1 May – Javier Aller, actor (b. 1972).[16]
- 5 May – José María Íñigo, journalist, radio and television presenter, and stage and screen actor (b. 1942).[17]
- 20 May – Ramón Chao, journalist (b. 1935)
- 7 June – José Marfil Peralta, soldier, writer, fighter in World War II, and Holocaust survivor (b. 1921).[18]