Diego Hidalgo is a co-founder and member of the board of El País, the leading Spanish daily newspaper. He is founder of the Club of Madrid; chairman of the Fund for Research and Investment for the Development of Africa (Frida); chairman of the board of the University of Extremadura (Spain); and president and chief executive of the publishers Alianza Editorial. He has also been chief of the Africa Division and an operations officer at the World Bank.

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The defeat of the ruling party in the Spanish elections three days after the attacks in Madrid on 11 March marks an extraordinary and unexpected turnaround. A founder of “El Pais”, Spain’s premier national newspaper, assesses the reasons for the government’s defeat and looks to the future of democracy in Europe.