Sánchez Cleans Up Mess Conservatives Made in Catalonia
The right used an antiquated sedition law to persecute Catalan separatists.
The right used an antiquated sedition law to persecute Catalan separatists.
Without their support, the prime minister would not have a majority in Congress.
Liberalizations cut unemployment and encouraged business creation.
Salvador Illa refuses to play second fiddle to the pro-independence Republican Left.
The Spanish prime minister is trying too hard to make a deal with his rivals.
The Spaniard must keep an eye on his left-wing allies as he makes deals with the right.
The social democrat makes concessions to separatists and the far left.
Spain’s Pedro Sánchez has the support of the left. Now he needs to woo Catalonia’s separatists.
The Socialists need to do a deal with either the conservatives or the Catalans. So they insult both.
Catalan and other regional parties hold the balance of power.
The Socialist Party leader’s sudden intransigence is convincing neither left- nor right-wing voters.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has failed to convince other parties to support him.
The result could be another election.
The center-left and center-right can no longer govern on their own. They need to compromise.
Pedro Sánchez was willing to take a side in his country’s culture war and won.