Spain's political escape artist Pedro Sánchez has odds against him yet again in national election
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has been prematurely counted out more than once in his relatively short but action-packed political career.
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00:00 It was supposed to be the crowning achievement of his term, the rotating presidency of the
00:06 European Council held by a socialist Spanish Prime Minister.
00:10 Both Spain and the EU had high expectations, but conservative gains at local elections
00:15 in May led Pedro Sánchez to call for early elections.
00:19 From the point of view of the European institutions, the electoral call on July 23 felt like a
00:25 jar of cold water.
00:27 Europeans will be keeping a close eye on the elections this Sunday, contested by Pedro
00:32 Sánchez's Socialist Party and Alberto Núñez Fiejo's Popular Party.
00:38 So what could a potential coalition with the far-right Vox Party mean for Spain's political
00:42 posture?
00:43 "That could somehow generate a certain alarm in some of the balances that exist right now
00:52 in Brussels.
00:53 It's true that the two major parties, the Popular Party and the Socialist Party, have
01:00 left out of the electoral campaign everything that has to do with Brussels and the European
01:07 Union.
01:08 We can say that they are in agreement, there is a harmony."
01:12 On the table are important European agreements such as migration policy and the ecological
01:17 transition.
01:18 "There is a discourse with negationist evocations that is very good to try to do
01:26 an exercise of electoral populism, but from the point of view of policy and not politics,
01:35 they are inapplicable.
01:36 In other matters, such as the debate on migration, I think that the Popular Party
01:44 would do badly if it tried to make concessions in matters that are very sensitive."
01:50 Without absolute majorities in sight, the latest polls indicate that the Spanish government's
01:55 presidency will be decided by a handful of scoundrels.
01:58 Next Sunday, July 23, will be a night of heart attacks also in Brussels.
02:04 In Madrid, Jaime Velázquez, Euronews.
02:06 [WHOOSH]