Spanish Government at Risk as Sanchez Rebuffs Partner’s Demands
- Socialists accuse Podemos of wanting ‘parallel government’
- If vote fails, clock starts ticking toward new elections
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Spain’s Socialist party rejected demands made by its best hope to form a coalition government, pushing Pedro Sanchez’s bid to stay on as prime minister to the brink of failure and making a fourth election in as many years more likely.
With a critical parliamentary vote looming later on Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo said the Podemos party had essentially demanded to “stuff almost the whole cabinet,” which would mean having what she termed a “parallel” administration. “They’ve literally asked us for the government,” Calvo told Cadena Ser radio in an interview.