Opinion
Inner conflict
Mark Nayler
"A government that includes [Podemos leader Pablo] Iglesias would not work, it would be paralysed." So said Socialist leader and soon-to-be prime minister Pedro Sánchez in a TV interview in July 2019, as his party cast around for a partner with ... traditional, the other in love with Marxist ideas and rebelling against the status quo - is marked by conflict rather than collaboration. The centrist Socialists and leftist Podemos have presented a more-or-less united front during the pandemic, but the ... question of how to spend €72 billion in EU recovery grants is now causing problems. Podemos, rightly, wants to keep it away from massive multinationals, whereas the Socialists, bafflingly, want to give chunks of it to companies such as Iberdrola and Seat,