Threats and insults fly as Spain prepares for coalition government

By Sam Jones in Madrid

The PM was called a sociopath and one MP had to be assigned protection during a ‘corrosive’ debate

Spain‘s first coalition government since the 1930s is preparing for office following a tumultuous and extraordinarily bad-tempered week of political argument that presages a fraught legislature.

The country’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has spent the last few days putting together a cabinet made up of ministers from his own Spanish Socialist Workers’ party and its new partners, the far-left, anti-austerity Unidas Podemos alliance.

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