Yesterday, with the Prime Minister at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Spanish politics experienced another grotesque day. In the Congress of Deputies, the government saw its initiative to delegate immigration powers to Catalonia fail. This was one of the many concessions the PSOE has been forced to make to try to maintain the support of Junts, a “traditionally right-wing” party that offered its support to Sánchez so…

Yesterday, 40 former senior PSOE officials—including ex-ministers and former regional presidents—sent a letter demanding Pedro Sánchez’s resignation, citing the “democratic regression” Spain is experiencing. Beyond the corruption cases surrounding the Prime Minister and the PSOE, these long-serving socialists are extremely concerned about Spain’s trajectory. They demand a party regeneration that requires Sánchez’s departure, arguing he is a hostage to an incredible policy of pacts that conditions government action, and to…

The parties supporting Sánchez, who is currently surrounded by corruption allegations, want him to remain in power so they can continue to blackmail him. They’ve made this clear in recent days. The Catalan independentist parties, Junts and ERC, hope that the Constitutional Court—colonized by the PSOE, like all state institutions—will rule the amnesty constitutional, arguing it’s not explicitly prohibited by the Constitution. They also expect Sánchez to fulfill his commitment—the…