Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez seems to have stepped into political quicksand yet again. 

His deals with Catalan and Basque separatists already fueled the rise of a far-right party in Spain, a country whose recent experience with Franco was supposed to render it immune to hardliners. (I reported on this when I visited Barcelona in 2020 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/spain-far-right_n_5e28f82ac5b67d8874ac8893)

Now the center-left Socialist Sánchez is pissing off his leftist allies by making a deal with the right wing of the Catalan separatist movement to give the Catalonia more control over who gets to migrate there. 

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/puigdemont-and-sanchezs-socialists-formalise-controversial-deal-to-transfer-migration-policy-powers-to-catalonia/

On top of all that, as I reported on my Substack last month, Sánchez's plans to phase out nuclear power are growing more unpopular.

https://kaufman.substack.com/p/europes-last-nuclear-phaseout-shows

Sanchez is the president of the Socialist International and perhaps the most notable left-wing government leader in the world today

I didn’t realize he held that position. But the latter claim definitely tracks, especially with Spain’s recognition of Palestine.