FACTBOX-Rights, national unity, taxes - campaign promises in Spain's election
SOCIALIST PARTY OF PRIME MINISTER PEDRO SANCHEZ * Produce a national pact for gender equality including a law for equal work opportunities
* Equal paternity and maternity leave * Law to regulate euthanasia, currently a criminal offence
* Give autonomous regions more say on state matters, laws * Approve measures and laws to fight tax fraud and corruption, including protection for whistleblowers
* Increase investment in education to 5 percent of GDP * Raise taxes for large companies and high earners
* Promote robust economic growth, reduce inequality while staying the course on deficit and debt reduction * Gradual minimum wage increases, no social security deficit in five years, pension indexation to real inflation
PEOPLE'S PARTY, CONSERVATIVE * Impose direct central rule in Catalonia to recover constitutional order after a failed independence bid
* Reinforce state presence in all autonomous regions * Spanish as the teaching language in schools, regional languages optional
* Orderly immigration policy linked to labour market needs * Reduce income tax ceiling to below 40 percent, company tax below 20 percent, end property and inheritance tax
* Combat gender violence, negotiate protocols to prevent sexual harassment at companies and public administrations * Life prison sentences for homicide during kidnapping, murders involving gender violence, repeat offense rapists
* Reduce electricity prices, promote recycling * Protect, promote bullfighting as an important tradition
CIUDADANOS (CITIZENS), CENTRE-RIGHT * Abolish upper house of parliament, create council of regional leaders instead
* Find a fair, common European solution to migration crisis * Legalize surrogacy arrangements for families
* Decriminalise euthanasia, if it is done along with a law to provide better palliative care * Deny legislative representation to parties with less than 3 percent of votes
* Laws on total transparency for political parties * End inheritance tax for working and middle classes
* Tax cuts, exemptions for self-employed, wider tax cuts UNIDAS PODEMOS (TOGETHER WE CAN), FAR-LEFT ALLIANCE
* Negotiations and referendum to find a solution to the Catalan crisis * Freedom to die with dignity - a law regulating euthanasia
* Decriminalize marijuana and legalise medical use of the drug * Bring to justice Franco-era torturers, compensate dictatorship's victims and their families
* Combat gender violence with an annual state budget of 600 million euros, expand LGBT rights * Increase public investment in research and development
* Tax big fortunes and property holdings, cut VAT * Ban evictions without a housing alternative
* Guarantee universal access to healthcare, free public universities VOX, FAR-RIGHT
* Suspend Catalonia's autonomous status * Shift away from the system of regional autonomies to one government, one parliament for Spain.
* Intensify diplomatic efforts to return Gibraltar to Spain * Repeal the law that bans Franco-era symbols and envisages compensation to dictatorship's victims
* Ban medical procedures such as gender change and abortion under the public health system * Repeal the law on gender violence as discriminatory against men
* Pass a law to protect bullfighting * Build a secure wall around the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla to shut out illegal immigrants. Deport illegal immigrants and those who entered Spain legally but committed a crime.
* Shut "fundamentalist" mosques * End property, inheritance taxes (Reporting By Elena Rodriguez, Sabela Ojea and Andrei Khalip; editing by John Stonestreet)
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