Why Spain’s successful prime minister might lose his job
Alberto Núñez Feijóo is leading in the polls
IN A DEBATE 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.
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This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Heigh ho, it’s Feijóo”
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