When directly elected mayors doggedly advocate for their city-region, they can make things happen, regardless of budgetary and devolution constraints.
- Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning, University of Huddersfield
Tensions between regional leaders and central government have reenergised a devolution debate.
Left-wing parties in Andalusia were the biggest losers as right-wing parties gained seats in in regional elections in early December.
The questions raised by the region’s failed bid for independence remain unanswered. And key figures remain in prison.
Leader of a corrupt party, an unpopular government and a divided country, Mariano Rajoy’s days were numbered long ago.
Move by the senate in Madrid came just after the Catalan parliament voted for independence.
Labour’s leader has a renewed mandate to put his party at the vanguard of the left – but others have walked that road before.
As Spain found out at its last election, voting for change is one thing, but achieving it is quite another.
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