Why Spain's left is in a funk

摘要

Alfredo perez rubalcaba, leader of Spain's beleaguered opposition Socialists, is a man with a noose around his neck. It is slowly tightening. More than a year after his party lost power its poll ratings remain below those of Mariano Ra-joy's Popular Party (pp). They are five points down on their November 2011 election result, standing at just 23%.