Jonathan SacramentoHostRosa StagnettoThe first thing I think we need to discuss is how did we get here? How did the Spanish government go into an early election? Pedro Sánchez was losing popularity.
Well, the timing, I don't know what Brian thinks, but the timing, of course, is of the essence.
He's always been insisting that he would go the full course of the government, and that would be 27 next year.
And lately, it's been getting worse and worse for him because of the Ceuta episode, which still hasn't been resolved and is undoubtedly...
And there are issues to be resolved there as to whether the intelligence services in Spain were aware of what was happening, if they informed or if they didn't inform.
And, of course, the PP has never stopped saying he is leading an illegitimate government, that he shouldn't be there at all, that they called him a traitor over the issues of Ceuta, corruption left, right and centre, according to... to the PP, but also true in some cases.
But it's been a constant hostility, the likes of which in politics we haven't seen in Spain for a very long time.
So really, he was being forced slowly to go towards an election, but time has been passing, and we're nearly in 27, so he's held on, as he always seems to do.
However, the latest development with the Mari Carmen case, the problem of the housing, of the rental, nobody can afford rent in Spain, young men, young couples can't get into flats, they can't afford it, the whole thing has come to a head.
And that, again, is to a degree against him, not only to the PP, who didn't do anything either in their years in government.
And in my view, I think he's done the right thing to go for it, although there are no guarantees.
He's seen an opportunity to change the narrative going into an election, because up until now, the political discourse has been dominated by migration, the Ceuta issue, but everything around that, and also the multiple allegations of corruption and so on involving the government and people around him.
pictures now, actually, of Mari Carmen Abascal, who was the straw that broke the camel's back.
The first thing I think we need to discuss is how did we get here? How did the Spanish government go into an early election? Pedro Sánchez was losing popularity.
Well, the timing, I don't know what Brian thinks, but the timing, of course, is of the essence.
He's always been insisting that he would go the full course of the government, and that would be 27 next year.
And lately, it's been getting worse and worse for him because of the Ceuta episode, which still hasn't been resolved and is undoubtedly...
And there are issues to be resolved there as to whether the intelligence services in Spain were aware of what was happening, if they informed or if they didn't inform.
And, of course, the PP has never stopped saying he is leading an illegitimate government, that he shouldn't be there at all, that they called him a traitor over the issues of Ceuta, corruption left, right and centre, according to... to the PP, but also true in some cases.
But it's been a constant hostility, the likes of which in politics we haven't seen in Spain for a very long time.
So really, he was being forced slowly to go towards an election, but time has been passing, and we're nearly in 27, so he's held on, as he always seems to do.
However, the latest development with the Mari Carmen case, the problem of the housing, of the rental, nobody can afford rent in Spain, young men, young couples can't get into flats, they can't afford it, the whole thing has come to a head.
And that, again, is to a degree against him, not only to the PP, who didn't do anything either in their years in government.
And in my view, I think he's done the right thing to go for it, although there are no guarantees.
He's seen an opportunity to change the narrative going into an election, because up until now, the political discourse has been dominated by migration, the Ceuta issue, but everything around that, and also the multiple allegations of corruption and so on involving the government and people around him.
pictures now, actually, of Mari Carmen Abascal, who was the straw that broke the camel's back.
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