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
The news that Spain’s prime minister had his phone hacked by Pegasus spyware last year is just the latest in a scandal that has laid bare the democratic deficiencies of the country’s post-Franco constitutional regime, argues Eoghan Gilmartin.