Spain's leader cracks whip on squabbling coalition partners by calling snap election

People gather in Madrid’s main square during a march by the leftist United We Can party in January 2015. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s surprise decision to call a snap election breaks apart the coalition he built with the far-left United We Can party, marking a line in the sand with a movement born of grassroots activism but whose electoral fortunes have nosedived. On Monday, Sánchez brought forward a national election expected in December to July 23 after the conservative Popular Party, or PP, and far-right Vox movement dramatically increased...