Spain’s acting prime minister, the socialist leader Pedro Sánchez, has a fresh, if fraught, shot at returning to power after his conservative rival Alberto Núñez Feijóo failed in his attempt to take office in an ill-tempered investiture debate that followed July’s inconclusive general election.
Although Feijoo’s People’s party (PP) finished first in the snap general election, it failed to win enough votes to form a government, taking 137 seats in Spain’s 350-seat congress and scoring a far less emphatic win over the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers’ party (PSOE) than had been expected.
