MADRID – Spain’s left-wing coalition government appears to have averted throwing the country into a political crisis on top of the enormous challenge it already faces from a devastating coronavirus outbreak that has claimed more than 25,000 lives and severely damaged its economy.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is appearing before Spain's parliament on Wednesday to receive its endorsement for a fourth two-week extension to a state of emergency that he declared on March 14 when Spain’s decentralized health care system had lost control of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The lockdown has succeeded in reducing the contagion rate from over 20% at the height of the crisis to under 1%. “We have won a partial victory against the virus thanks to the sacrifice