US EditionTrump Turmoil Sees Spain's Sanchez Emerge as Progressive Star
The summit brings together 400 mayors and more than 100 parties as Sánchez’s clashes with Trump raise his profile among progressives.
- Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez hosts the two-day Global Progressive Mobilisation in Barcelona beginning Friday, drawing Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum, 400 mayors, and more than 100 parties.
- Sanchez's international profile has surged amid turbulent relations with President Donald Trump, including his refusal last year to hike defense spending to five percent of GDP and vocal opposition to the US-Israeli war on Iran.
- Analysts suggest Sanchez is "playing the foreign policy card hard" to "strengthen his political position" and "absorb the left-wing vote," while Spain has earned recognition for a "coherent" stance in the Global South.
- More than 68 percent of Spaniards oppose the war on Iran, yet the Popular Party claims Sanchez uses foreign policy exclusively to rally left-wing forces and distract from negative headlines at home.
- Organizers say the gathering aims to rally progressives during times of turmoil, with Sanchez urging participants to "unite, tell citizens that we belong to something that goes beyond domestic politics, our borders-- and that is having a positive, humanist outlook.
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Trump turmoil sees Spain's Sanchez emerge as progressive star
Spain's Pedro Sanchez hosts a summit of world progressives this week with greater global clout as turbulent relations with US President Donald Trump bolster his image as a left-wing hero.
Secretary dem on Friday and Saturday at the summit that will bring together progressive leaders from all over the world in Barcelona
Barcelona now completes all the details to become, next Friday and Saturday, the epicenter of an international progressive movement that presents itself as an alternative to Donald Trump’s geopolitical and ideological agenda. Friday will be held in the palace of Pedralbes the first bilateral summit between Spain and Brazil, where Pedro Sánchez and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will translate, according to the Moncloa, their “great progressive politi…
The head of government manages to attract presidents from Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, South Africa, Uruguay, Lithuania to defend an alternative to the world right wave
The Spanish Prime Minister is hosting a summit in Barcelona on Friday for progressive world leaders who oppose war in the Middle East. This strategy is helping him regain support among voters at home.
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