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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The Prime Minister called early elections after the social crisis triggered by the expulsion of the octogenary turned into a political crisis.
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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…
He claims that the PP "gets scared" with the mail vote because "he prefers empty ballot boxes so that those who move the strings win." He claims to be "dog without master" when the opposition "is with the fable of Peter and the wolf; the wolf is them." More information: A witness to the alleged fraud of the mail vote in Seville, before the judge: "I have never voted and that signature is not mine"
The secretary general of the PSOE and president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, has starred this Saturday in his first major pre-campaign event in the face of the general elections of 29 November. Surrounded by some 5,000 attendees (according to the organizers) in the auditorium Los del Río de Dos Hermanas (Seville), the socialist leader has hardened the tone against the right, claiming himself as a free leader that is due only to the citizens…
thunderous music and flags at the top of the PSOE. About five thousand people from the eight Andalusian provinces have packed the municipal auditorium of Los del...
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