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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Is the political right-making comeback in Europe or not?

Spain goes to the polls and the center-right popular party gains seats, but not enough to form

a new government. We'll tell you what happened and why it matters.

Also a big week coming for economic news in the United States with the Federal Open

Market Committee meeting this week to decide whether to raise interest rates again or continue

the pause that it started in June. Also, second quarter GDP report comes out Thursday.

I will tell us something about the pace of economic growth and whether the economy is on a path to

that fabled soft landing of law or is more trouble ahead. Welcome. I'm Paul Ojigo with the

Wall Street Journal editorial page and here in Potomac Watch, I'm joined by Joseph Sternberg.

Joe is based in London for us. Welcome, Joe. How are you? Hey, Paul. I am well. How are you?

That's a bad. You took a reporting trip to Spain not too long ago as kind of size up where the

election was. So just want to relate your credentials here to our listeners about your credibility

in Spain. And you wrote about it and you were expecting, I think it's fair to say, that the popular

party, the center-right party, would do pretty well in this snap election that was called by the

ruling socialists after some regional voting defeats. The PP did in fact gains 38% of seats in

the election on Sunday. And that was the leading party of the big four, but socialists got 34%.

But the PP was denied an outright majority in terms of working with a coalition. They had hope

to be able to form a center-right majority. And that fell short. What happened? Well, I think a

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