2022 in Spain
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Incumbents
- Monarch: Felipe VI[1]
- Prime Minister: Pedro Sánchez
- President of the Congress of Deputies: Meritxell Batet
- President of the Senate of Spain: Ander Gil
- President of the Supreme Court: Carlos Lesmes
- President of the Constitutional Court: Pedro González-Trevijano
- Attorney General: Dolores Delgado
- Chief of the Defence Staff: Teodoro Esteban López Calderón
- 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 (Until 1 August)
January
- 5 January – Sara Alba is dismissed as Minister of Health of La Rioja in the Government of Concha Andreu.[2]
- 19 January – Six people are killed in a fire at a nursing home in Moncada, Valencia.[3]
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.[4][5] Following this election result, and an unfolding leadership crisis in PP,[6] Vox for the first time was recognized as the Spain's second political force, according to some opinion polls for the next general elections.[7]
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.[8] Vox member Carlos Pollán was elected President of the Cortes of Castile and León, the position of speaker.[9]
May
- 6 May - 2022 Madrid explosion: Two people are killed and eighteen others are injured after a gas leak-caused explosion in Madrid.
June
- 13 June - Vila-seca train crash
- 28–30 June - 2022 NATO Madrid summit
August
- 1 August - Spain is alongside Portugal who both transition to the endemic phase.
October
- 16 October - At least seven people are injured in a suspected gas explosion at a Japanese restaurant in Tarragona, Spain.[10]
Deaths
- 16 July, Carlos Pérez de Bricio, Spanish businessman and politician (born 1927)