2018 in Spain

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Events in the year 2018 in Spain.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch: Felipe VI
• Prime Minister: Mariano Rajoy until June 1
  Pedro Sánchez (since June 1)

Events[]

• Ongoing — 2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis

• 8 March — 2018 Spanish women's strike.^[1]

• 10 June — Human Chain for Basque Self-determination, 2018.^[2]
• 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.^[3][4] 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.^[5][6]

• 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.^[7] The same happened two weeks later.^[8]

• 18 September – The sixth floor of the Hotel Ritz in Madrid collapses resulting in the death of one person while 11 others are injured. ^[9]

• 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.^[10][11]

Deaths[]

Manuel Olivencia

Luisa Pastor Lillo

• 1 January – Manuel Olivencia, economist and diplomat (b. 1929).^[12]

• 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).^[13]

• 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).^[14]

• 5 May – José María Íñigo, journalist, radio and television presenter, and stage and screen actor (b. 1942).^[15]

• 20 May – Ramón Chao, journalist (b. 1935)

• 7 June – José Marfil Peralta, soldier, writer, fighter in World War II, and Holocaust survivor (b. 1921).^[16]

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