下月的大选已不再是原先的较量，因为佩德罗·桑切斯发现自己被迫为政府的安全记录辩护。
Next month’s poll no longer the contest it was, as Pedro Sánchez finds himself forced to defend government’s safety record One of the most dependable cliches of contemporary Spanish politics is that it never pays to bet against Pedro Sánchez.
当代西班牙政治中最可靠的陈词滥调之一，就是押注佩德罗·桑切斯会输从来不会有好结果。一次又一次——作为西班牙工人社会党（PSOE）的领导人和首相——桑切斯展现出了近乎超自然的从逆境中获益的能力，颠覆预期，打乱对手的阵脚。
Time and time again – as leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ party (PSOE) and as prime minister – Sánchez has shown an almost preternatural ability to profit from adversity, and to confound expectations and wrongfoot his opponents.
但下月的提前大选——桑切斯在右翼和极右翼政党否决其联合政府为回应愤怒抗议而宣布的住房改革后召集的大选——可能突然不再是原先那场较量了。
But next month’s snap general election, called by Sánchez after rightwing and far-right parties voted down the housing reforms his coalition government had announced in response to angry protests, may suddenly not be the contest it once was.
