Trudeau in Europe? Leftist governments find footing in Spain and Portugal
Jun 15, 2018
4 minutes
Spain has seen its fair share of headlines recently, but they have almost always fed the narrative of “fragile southern Europe.”
Even with economic recovery, the financial crisis left a generation under-employed and toppled Spain’s two-party system; the separatist movement rages in Catalonia; corruption brought down the former right-wing government this month.
But the improbable rise of Pedro Sánchez, whose Social Democrats (PSOE) suffered historic losses in the last election cycles, has in the past week sent a clear message about a new leftist and progressive path for Spain. His first move was to form a government that is majority women, and more than any other
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