This week, unsurprisingly, the Socialist Party (PSOE) and Sumar, the further-left electoral umbrella that has mostly, although not completely, gobbled up and overshadowed Podemos, reached a deal for a new left-wing coalition government, labelled Frankenstein II by the right, although that term was actually first coined by former socialist leader Rubalcaba in 2016, as the splintering of Spanish politics after the financial crisis became evident, because the renewed coaltion will again depend on the parliamentary support of several regional nationalist parties. They did all make it through the whole of the last parliament the first time round, though, including managing the global Covid pandemic in Spain.
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