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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver,

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from Santiago de Chile. In Spanish politics, the center-left socialist party has demolished

the traditional conservative popular party and checked the risk of a major far-right surge.

But meanwhile, the once very plausible-seeming dream

of an insurgent radical left gaining power has faded and fast.

The socialist party's recovery is a rare example of social democratic

center-left parties holding on to power and relevance. Meanwhile, the left

party Podemos has run out of steam, while left mayors in Barcelona and Madrid suffered painful

losses. As the popular party has foundered, the far-right Vox party has emerged as a real

force in a country that had been considered

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