Times are a-changing in Spain as the new office bearers embrace the secular state and do away with cars.

Anti-poverty activist elected as mayor of Barcelona; the ruling right-wing People’s Party was battered at the ballot box.

The mayoral race is down to a pair of self-styled "little grandmothers" who are poles apart in their politics but equally tenacious and astute.

Spain’s ruling People’s Party leads opinion poll as a survey reveals that 44% of the majority would vote against the newcomer socialists, Podemos.

Spaniards have voted in rain-sodden elections that were all but certain to hand a thundering victory to the right.

Spain’s right storms towards a landslide win in Sunday elections, carried by popular anger over an economic slump.