The prime minister is a candidate again. And it shows. He speaks fluidly, dodges jabs, and stands his ground with a smile. Pedro Sánchez, who seemed somewhat weakened after his brother’s conviction and the Ceuta migrant crisis, appears to have been energized by the general election of November 29, which will be his sixth. “These elections can be summed up in a very simple idea: either the past moves forward, or Spain moves forward,” he says.

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El presidente vuelve a ser candidato. Y se le nota. Habla con soltura, esquiva dardos, se planta con una sonrisa. Pedro Sánchez, a quien, tras la condena de su hermano y la crisis de Ceuta, se le veía debilitado, da la impresión de haber renacido con el 29-N, sus sextas elecciones generales. “Estos comicios se pueden resumir en una idea muy sencilla: o avanza el pasado o avanza España”, afirma.

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Tens of thousands of young people have taken to the streets in France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Albania. In doing so, they have joined what has been dubbed the Generation Z revolution (those born between 1997 and 2012), which over the past two years helped bring down the government of Bangladesh, force the resignation of Nepal’s prime minister and dissolve Madagascar’s government. Now, in Europe, on the eve of an electoral supercycle that will determine the governments of four of the European Union’s five most populous countries (France, Italy, Spain and Poland), young people are sharing a frustration that opportunities for their generation are becoming scarcer and their future increasingly insecure.

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