Spain Better Get Used to Multiparty Democracy
You can’t return sixteen parties to Congress and not expect them to compromise.
You can’t return sixteen parties to Congress and not expect them to compromise.
They keep trying to outflank the far right and failing.
If the Conservatives miscalculate, the outcome could be a disaster for them.
Democrats would be wise to take the preferences of center-right voters into account.
The Spanish electoral system, the parties, their leaders and possible coalitions.
The conservative’s gradualist approach to reform convinced neither investors nor voters.
A left-wing strategy could alienate centrist voters, but pacts with the right have wearied leftists.
The Socialist Party leader’s sudden intransigence is convincing neither left- nor right-wing voters.
Why are the Catalans upset? How many want independence? How can this end?
Supporters won’t say, because they can’t. Nobody knows how expensive it would be.
Victory!
The president has betrayed America’s friends and sided with its adversaries.
The American president’s erratic behavior is finally starting to perturb his supporters.
In neither case can partisans agree on the facts.
They now say they would be willing to give Pedro Sánchez a second term.