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January 9, 2020

Spanish Socialist Party Leader Pedro Sánchez Sworn In as Prime Minister
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In Spain, Socialist Party leader Pedro Sánchez was sworn in as Spanish
prime minister Wednesday, one day after his proposal to form a coalition
government narrowly won a vote in the Spanish Parliament Tuesday.
Sánchez agreed to form a coalition government with Pablo Iglesias, the
head of the leftist Podemos party, paving the way for Spain's first
progressive coalition government since the 1930s. And in a correction to
our headline yesterday, the formation of this coalition government was
made possible when a group of pro-independence legislators from
Catalonia agreed to abstain from Tuesday's vote, not join the coalition
government.


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