The battle for a party’s soul
The ousting of Pedro Sánchez may give the country a government
IF ANY political party can claim to have invented modern Spain, it is the Socialists. They have ruled for 21 of the 39 years of Spain’s restored democracy. Under Felipe González, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), to give it its full name, took the country into the EU and NATO and modernised its economy. And under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero it modernised cultural attitudes, loosening restrictions on abortion and approving gay rights.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “The battle for a party’s soul”
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