… the economic and financial crisis that hit Spain in 2008-09, PSOE, as the governing party, experienced a dramatic … 2015 election, PSOE continued to lose support, dropping to 22 percent, while a new left-of-PSOE populist party, We Can ( … Congress from 71 in 2016 to 42. In the evening of election day, Pablo Iglesias, the UP’s leader, called Sánchez to …