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Spain:https://portside.org/2020-01-09/spain-just-formed-its-first-left-coalition-government-more-80-years
“..Spain’s new coalition government, led by the Socialist Party and Unidas Podemos It vows to strengthen job security and unions, raise the minimum wage and taxes on the wealthy, pass a climate-change law, and introduce free, universal public child car…
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…..presented a 50-page document outlining 11 points of emphasis for how the new “progressive coalition” would govern Spain.
……….on Tuesday, after two days of rowdy debate, they were backed by a razor-thin simple majority: 167 deputies voted in favor and 165 against, with 18 abstentions. The nail-biter of a vote, which was painstakingly negotiated and almost derailed at the last minute, clears the way for the first progressive coalition government Spain has seen since the 1930s… “