Nowhere in Pablo Iglesias’s brief romp through Spain’s electoral problems (Spain’s new coalition must confront the Catalan crisis, 19 November) does he accept his own abrogation of responsibility and failure to join his party, Podemos, in coalition with the Spanish Socialist Workers’ party (PSOE) when the going was good, ie after the April 2019 election.
At that point Vox was a minor irritant on the Spanish right and the Catalan separatists were on the back foot. However, the local elections in Andalucía, with a surge from Vox, were a straw in the wind.
Pedro Sánchez is to blame for throwing away his electoral advantage, both for his own party and the Spanish left in general. But Iglesias, in his refusal to compromise, is also to blame, not that readers would guess that from this article.
Terry Walsh
Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
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