CER podcast: We have to talk about Spain

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In this week’s episode of the Centre for European Reform podcast, host Octavia Hughes speaks to the head of our Brussels office, Camino Mortera-Martínez. They discuss the results of the Spanish local and regional elections and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's decision to call a snap election. Camino explains what is at stake for Spain and Sánchez, including the rotating presidency of the council of ministers of the EU, which Madrid is due to hold between July and December. Produced by Octavia Hughes  Music by Edward Hipkins

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0:00.0	From the Center for European Reform, this is the CIA podcast.
0:04.0	Poson us seriously the question of the
0:05.9	future that we want, and we all
0:08.0	all together, the courage to it construct.
0:10.5	For us in Germany, is the
0:11.9	Bekenness to the European Europe,
0:14.0	a part of our state's resolve.
0:15.6	A strong united Europe is a necessity for the world,
0:17.9	because an integrated Europe remains vital to our
0:20.1	international order. This is the moment for Europe world because integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.
0:21.3	This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.
0:28.9	Hello and welcome to the CER podcast. I'm Octavia Hughes, host of today's episode, and I'm joined
0:36.0	by Camino Motero Martinez, head of the CER's
0:39.6	Brussels office. Today, we'll be discussing the state of Spanish politics and Spain's position in the
0:45.8	EU. Welcome back to the podcast, Camino. Thanks so much, Latvia. So it's been a dramatic few
0:52.8	days for Spanish politics, The leftist Spanish socialist
0:56.3	workers party, whose leader as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, has suffered a serious loss in the local
1:02.8	and regional elections, which took place at the end of May. Right and far right wing parties,
1:08.7	like Vox and the Popular Party, did very well. And crucially,
1:14.4	Sanchez's junior coalition partner, far-left Podemos, collapsed. This seems like a huge sea change
1:21.3	after the left won the 2019 general election. Camino, could you start by telling us whether this was also a shock to pundits in
1:30.0	Spain or if this shift to the right had been predicted? Right. So what I can tell you is that
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