For Spain’s left, no time to celebrate
Sunday’s national snap election in Spain — held just four weeks before European Parliament elections — was won by the center-left Socialist party of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. But as feared, the country stopped being the largest European country without a far-right parliamentary faction.
The vote produced no easy governing majority; weeks, if not months, of negotiations will follow. In what has become the norm, the political debate was polarized, social networks were flooded with misinformation and disinformation, and identity politics dominated the discourse. And yet, an overwhelming majority of voters chose mainstream, pro-European forces.
Sunday’s parliamentary elections were the second act in a three-part play.… Seguir leyendo »