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#ElectionsSpain2019: Populist radicalisation, Catalonia, and the far-right

Spain is the epitome of political instability, with a 5 party fragmentation and the impossibility of appeasing radicalised nationalists. Español

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Pedro Sánchez at the PSOE party conference in 2017. Wikimedia Commons. All Rights Reserved.

The political landscape in Spain is that of instability, alongside rising radical nationalisms that make it almost impossible to reach an agreement.

The socialist government of Pedro Sánchez has lasted eight months. It’s the shortest government the country has seen since the re-establishment of democracy in 1978 after 40 years of dictatorship under general Franco.