
National
Weakened left moves quickly to try to govern with deal between PSOE and UP
SUR
...failure to agree a split of ministries over the summer had led to this repeat election, this time the two main left-wing groups were taking no chances. The rise of the far-right Vox vote and the spectre of a possible third general election focused minds ... be the abstention of Ciudadanos' MPs, the Catalan separatist ERC or left-wing Basque nationalist party, Bildu. PSOE representatives have spent the rest of this week talking to smaller parties to try to win their support. In return, all these parties ... rights will respect Spain's public-spending commitments with the EU. One of the key policies of the left is to overturn labour-market reform by an earlier PP government, but this isn't mentioned in the deal, and was replaced by the aim of "fighting