Spain’s Pedro Sánchez Launches Legislative Campaign Amid Maricarmen’s Death
- Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez began campaigning for Spain’s November 29 election as housing protests spread after the death of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal following her eviction.
- Protesters held marches and vigils in Madrid and Barcelona, while activists stopped another family’s eviction in Madrid.
- Housing groups called a November 11 general strike demanding affordable housing and stronger tenant protections.
- Sánchez’s PSOE-Sumar coalition faces the opposition People’s Party, led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, while Vox could influence coalition talks if no party wins a majority.
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Pedro Sanchez launched his election campaign for the November 29 elections in the so-called "lucky city" of Dos Hermanas, Seville, in front of around 5,000 people. The post Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez launches his election campaign with housing in focus appeared first on in.gr.
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Spanish PM begins vote campaign overshadowed by housing protests
When 87-year-old Madrid pensioner Maricarmen Abascal was evicted from her home two weeks ago, no one could have expected Spain was headed for upheaval that would bring forward a general election scheduled for 2027. The eviction of Abascal, who became the face of the country's chronic housing crisis, catalysed nationwide protests that piled pressure on Sanchez's left-wing coalition to present urgent decrees. But after the minority government fail…
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