The prime minister has delivered a rare good result for European social democracy
BACK LAST May when he filed the censure motion that brought him into office, Pedro Sánchez brushed off demands for an immediate election. With less than a quarter of the seats in Congress, he governed for ten months through a mix of significant gestures—in particular a big rise in the minimum wage—and symbolic acts, such as starting the process of moving the remains of Franco, the former dictator, to a less prominent location.
“We’ve sent a message to Europe and the world that you can defeat reaction [and] authoritarianism,” Mr Sánchez told a cheering crowd outside the Socialist headquarters in Madrid. He will now face two big tasks: to fulfil his promise of a fairer society when economic recovery is slowing, and to try to defuse Catalan separatism. First he will have to marshall a majority in Congress.
A stronger, but politically even more difficult, option would be a coalition with Ciudadanos. Albert Rivera, the party’s leader, explicitly ruled that out during the campaign and did so again on election night, saying that he would lead the opposition. Mr Rivera wants a hard-line approach to Catalan separatism, not dialogue as Mr Sánchez advocates; he also sees an opportunity to displace the PP as the dominant force on the centre-right.
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