The centre-right People’s Party is widely expected to take power. But it is unlikely to win an outright majority WorldAhead
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskThe government took power when the Socialist party led a vote of no confidence against the centre-right People’s Party government in 2018. The Socialists’ Pedro Sánchez became prime minister. But in two elections in 2019, the Socialists failed to secure a majority of seats. The party was forced to take the far-left Podemos into coalition, after promising never to do so, and still lacked a majority.
That said, as elsewhere in Europe, 2022 was hard. Just as the pandemic was receding, inflation sparked by the war in Ukraine clobbered consumers. The government responded with a grab-bag of remedies, some wiser than others., meanwhile, ditched its combative leader, Pablo Casado, for Alberto Núñez Feijóo , the longtime leader of Galicia in the north-west.
Closer to home will be efforts to improve Europe’s energy union. Spain and Portugal are an “energy island”, hardly connected to other countries. But Spain, Portugal and France agreed in late 2022 to build an undersea connection between Barcelona and Marseille, to carry gas first, and later hydrogen. The hard part will be the budgeting and planning of the project.
Catalonia may be unstable in the coming year. After an unconstitutional independence referendum in 2017, two pro-independence governments have followed. But the one that emerged from 2021’s elections collapsed in late 2022. The Republican Catalan Left had been negotiating, cautiously, with the national government, which caused Junts, the more stridently pro-independence party, to quit the government in Barcelona.
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