MAY 5 2026
Spain’s Left Has a New Frontier: Democracy at Work
The center-left Partido Socialista (PSOE) Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his second deputy prime minister, Yolanda Díaz of the left-wing alliance Sumar, can take credit for growing employment and rising wages, allowing them to buck wider European trends.
The horizon for Spain’s left remains more radical and egalitarian than social-democratic advance in an age of neoliberalism, however. The latest evidence is a new report commissioned by Díaz’s ministry, “Two Promises to Those Who Work: Voice and Ownership,” drawn up by an international commission of experts to chart how Spain might finally make good on a long-dormant constitutional mandate to extend democracy into the workplace.