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Hello, you're very welcome to Long Reads, a Jacobin podcast where we look in depth

of political topics and thinkers. My name's Daniel Finn,

I'm the Features Editor here at Jacobin and I'll be presenting the show. We're joined again today

by Owen Gilmartin to continue our discussion about the government of Pedro Sanchez in Spain.

Owen is an Irish journalist based in Madrid. He's a regular contributor to Jacobin

and he co-hosts the Sobre Meza podcast on Spanish politics.

We have dropped by 40% the unemployment rate. So green transition and migration are positive

for the economic development of a country.

Sanchez spoke with Bloomberg in September this year and pushed back against the call

for a more restrictive line on immigration that's become so pervasive in other Western countries.

He also declared his ambition to lead his Socialist Party into the next general election.

Unfortunately, we're seeing not only in Spain but across Europe a political collapse of the centre-righted traditional parties,

which, by the way, it started after the financial crisis with the failure of governments, with all this rhetoric of austerity, banking,

and the financial rescue that we had to pay with taxes all around Europe.

And what you see now from the Central Right is that they are copying

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