Spain’s culture wars boil over during a scorching summer election campaign
That is not the only reason Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s decision to call a July 23 election looks like such a risky gamble. Mr. Sánchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party suffered a drubbing in May’s regional elections. Calling a snap national election on the heels of that result is something of a Hail Mary pass on Mr. Sánchez’s part.
In this campaign, the economy has taken a back seat to the culture wars. Spain’s unemployment rate remains stuck above 12 per cent, and its debt-to-gross-domestic-product ratio hovers dangerously at around 113 per cent. But its politicians prefer to argue over Pride flags rather than productivity. PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo, a moderate at heart, has mostly evaded questions about a possible coalition with Vox. But his party is unlikely to win an outright majority of the 350 seats in Spain’s Congress. And Mr. Sánchez has been able to point to the pacts recently made between PP and Vox leaders in Extremadura and Valencia to take power in those regions to warn of the consequences of a PP-Vox coalition government at the national level.
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