Why Spain’s successful prime minister might lose his job

Alberto Núñez Feijóo is leading in the polls


IN A DEBATEPP between Spain’s main party leaders on July 10th, the moderators repeatedly had to ask the two men to stop speaking over each other, an instruction they ignored. It was a fitting moment for Spanish politics, where practitioners are better at talking than listening.Pedro Sánchez, behind in polls, is battling to keep his job in elections on July 23rd. The leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party took power in a no-confidence vote against the government of the People’s Party () in 2018. When he did so, he said in the debate, three concerns predominated: the economy, corruption and Catalonia. He can make a case that he has improved all three.

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