US EditionSpanish prime minister calls early general election after battering in regional vote
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has announced the dissolution of parliament and an early general election on July 23 following the results of Sunday's local elections.
- The ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and its junior ally Podemos lost ground during the regional elections, while the conservative People's Party and far-right party Vox outperformed.
- Sanchez said the election results conveyed a message beyond the local and regional scope, and as both prime minister and PSOE's secretary-general, he personally assumes the results and believes it necessary to give an answer.
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The regional and municipal elections this Sunday gave a very broad victory to the People's Party. With the far-right group Vox, he is snatching six regions and two major cities from the left. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, national president of the PP, takes a step towards Moncloa.
Pedro Sanchez made the decision to dissolve Parliament after his party lost to the Conservatives in regional elections.
Spanish prime minister calls early general election after battering in regional vote
MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday called an early general election for July 23 in a surprise move after his Socialist party took a serious battering in local and regional elections. Prior to Sunday’s debacle, Sánchez had insisted that he would ride out his four-year term with leftist government coalition partner United We Can, indicating that a election would be held in December. But the outcome of the local and regio…
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