Palma20/06/2018 00:00
The new Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez keeps ruling out early elections, but really the matter is not in his hands. Sanchez leads a minority government and he could be defeated at the drop of a hat. I suspect that the chances of him still being prime minister at Christmas are slim to say the least. He prefers to govern with a minority government than pacting with other parties to form a coalition. This leaves him in a very weak position.
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Same editorial for 4 Days! Nice to see you earning your salary.
Can’t be a worse mess than the EU is in, with economic growth forecast being slashed, Italy wanting out of the euro, Germany loosing its grip on power, France wanting further integration. No Spain looks positively stable in comparison.
This doesn’t mean to say that the new leader of the PP party, who will most probably be a woman, won’t be able to convince enough MP’s to join her and the C’s party to hold a vote of no confidence against Sanchez if he makes a mess of things, which he will be very careful not to do, making sure that all his policies are “progressive” and socialist enough to keep the left wing parties and especially the independence seeking parties happy, even if they do turn out to be ineffective.
Jason, I’m afraid I don’t see it that way at all. Sanchez had no intention of holding an election before June 2020 when he won the vote of no confidence, and he has since confirmed that this will be the case. He can lose as many parliamentary policy votes as he likes, that is if he is stupid enough to hold them when he knows he will lose, but the only thing that can or will remove him from power is another vote of no confidence, something that I doubt the rest of the left wing and independent parties will agree to. We’ve got Sanchez for another two years yet, even if he wasn’t elected by Spanish public.