How Spain's housing crisis has resulted in an early general election
How Spain's housing crisis has resulted in an early general election.
How Spain's housing crisis has resulted in an early general election.
Article outline
- What happened
- Official response
- The bottom line
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez confirmed Spain will be heading to the polls on 29 November, after Sanchez's Socialist party. It is at present heading a minority administration, failed to pass housing reforms in the Spanish Congress.
Sanchez faces an uphill battle in his bid for re-election with polls showing Sánchez's Socialist party is trailing the conservative People's Party – which plenty of expect to attempt to form a administration with the far-right Vox.
In his statement announcing the election, Sanchez cautioned Spaniards concerning what he called the "extreme-right wave" being seen in other countries and noted Spain should continue to be a global example of "peace, feminism and prosperity". BBC correspondent Guy Hedgecoe reports. Follow the BBC's live coverage after Sanchez's announcement. You are now after Pedro Sanchez.
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Taken together, the developments around how Spain' s housing crisis has resulted in an early general election point to a situation that is still moving, and the coming days should bring more clarity.
