The PM’s decision to go to the polls was a canny move from one of the most successful centre-left politicians of the past decade, says journalist Eoghan Gilmartin
By Eoghan Gilmartin It’s been described by Spanish media as both political suicide and a stroke of tactical brilliance. Just hours after suffering heavy losses in Sunday’s local and regional polls, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a surprise general election for July 23. This may seem counterintuitive. Sánchez’s ruling center-left Socialist Party (PSOE) had just