Protests, political tension grips lockdown Spain

Nightly pot-banging protests and rising political tensions piled pressure on Spain’s minority government Friday as it sought to lead the nation cautiously out of lockdown and tackle the economic chaos triggered by the pandemic. “The most shocking thing is a government that has no internal unity, with a majority hanging by a thread at a time when we urgently need” to tackle the economic chaos caused by the pandemic, said political scientist…