Comment: Would Sánchez like to be the President of a third Spanish republic?

The First Minister of Madrid, Ayuso (PP), suggested yesterday that Sánchez would like to become the President of the next Spanish republic. A poll in El Diario on Sunday suggested a majority of Spaniards would like to see a referendum on the issue of a monarchy versus a republic and that opinions were split both ways, at around 44% of the vote, with 12% undecided in the middle. Now, Spain is not the UK in terms of solid social allegiance to the idea of the royal family, but I have found myself wondering out loud about this idea in conversations recently too. If we think a bit about Spanish history, about Sánchez’s background and about his political manoeuvres over the past few years, Ayuso’s suggestion is not as outrageous as it might sound at first.