Will Spain soon have a government? The fate of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who was re-elected last November in early parliamentary elections, is now in the hands of Spanish MPs.
Parliament, who are meeting from Saturday 4 January in plenary session in Madrid, is due to vote on the coalition set out by Mr Sánchez. If his proposal does not obtain a qualified majority—at least 176 votes out of 350—at the end of the first debates, a second round will take place on Tuesday 7...