Spain’s Pedro Sánchez Launches Legislative Campaign Amid Maricarmen’s Death
More than 5,000 people attended as Sánchez opened his bid with a pledge to win over voters seeking change.
- On Saturday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez kicked off his campaign for the November 29 snap election in Dos Hermanas, Seville, a historic Socialist stronghold where he previously resurrected his political career.
- Sánchez called the snap election after parliament rejected his housing plans, a decision intensified by the recent death of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal, who became a symbol of Spain's housing crisis.
- Popular Party president Alberto Núñez Feijóo launched his campaign in Madrid on Saturday, arguing the crisis 'is the symptom of the decay, corruption and lies into which the nation has sunk' and that Spain needs 'wholesale change.'
- The electoral register has grown by 1.26 million people since 2023, while the so-called 'Grandchildren's Law' drove a more than 19% increase in voters residing abroad, complicating the race for the governing Socialist PSOE and Sumar coalition.
- Campaign rallies are expected to be dominated by housing concerns, though the election also faces challenges from a migration crisis in Ceuta, where more than 70,000 migrants arrived in July.
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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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