Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is in a hurry; he wants a government by the New Year.
The 10 November election once again saw Sánchez’ centre-left PSOE become the largest party, but significantly short of a majority. They quickly elicited the support of the left-wing Podemos, but it still leaves them 21 short of a majority.
So Sanchez has had to turn to the nationalist parties, with his party holding a series of meetings with Catalan and Basque parties to try to come to a compromise on thorny questions, the thorniest of all being whether their respective nations have the right to national self-determination.
