Mr Sanchez and his squabbling detractors

摘要

IN JANUARY 2017 in Dos Hermanas, a large dormitory town outside Seville, Pedro Sanchez launched a bid to regain the leadership of Spain's Socialist Party, from which he had been ousted in an internal coup three months earlier. Few in the Madrid political establishment gave him a chance, yet after months driving from rally to rally in his 12-year old Peugeot 407 he won his job back in a party primary. Last May he showed the same determination and sense of opportunity when he organised a censure motion that installed him as prime minister of a minority government at the expense of Mariano Rajoy, a conservative whose People's Party (pp) has been tarnished by corruption.