Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced last week that Catalonia’s right-wing separatist party Junts per Catalunya had agreed to support Sánchez in exchange for his continued support after the inconclusive general election last July. He ended a controversial amnesty he had promised his party, suffering a crushing defeat. Janz argued that the bill did not sufficiently protect former leader Carles Puigdemont from criminal cases unrelated to Catalonia’s illegal 2017 independence referendum, the subject of the amnesty.
Sánchez’s Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) came second in last year’s vote, but he became an unlikely prime minister after the conservative opposition People’s Party (PP) and its far-right coalition partner Vox came just short of first place. He skillfully planned his return as a. majority. Sánchez strikes deals with regional secessionist parties, including Jants, to win parliamentary votes as re-forming his Progressive Coalition government emerges as the only viable alternative to new elections It was very successful.
His bet on the early snap polls appears to have paid off. But as last week’s vote highlighted, he now heads a government that is even more unruly than the complex multiparty progressive coalition that experts have dubbed the “Frankenstein Coalition.” I noticed that