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Back|PSOE barons pressure Pedro Sánchez to call early elections
PSOE barons pressure Pedro Sánchez to call early elections
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El Mundo·44 minutes ago·Politics·1 min read·🇪🇸Spain·

PSOE barons pressure Pedro Sánchez to call early elections

Socialist territorial leaders advocate for early elections after the blocking of housing decrees in Congress.

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  • Several territorial leaders of the PSOE urge Pedro Sánchez to call general elections after the parliamentary rejection of decrees on housing.
  • They argue that it is time for citizens to speak out in the face of the current political blockade.

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The Congress of Deputies rejected two decrees on housing presented by the Government, which has generated a legislative crisis.

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Just hours before Pedro Sánchez announces whether he finally decides to bring forward the elections, taking advantage of the wave of social protest over housing, several PSOE barons are even pressuring in public for him to announce the end of the legislature now. "There is a window of opportunity for citizens, who have awakened in a forceful, resounding way, to express themselves through the ballot boxes," the general secretary of the party in Castilla y León, Carlos Martínez, stressed this Sunday during a visit to Cifuentes (Guadalajara).

Even before the votes of the PP, Vox and Junts overturned the two decrees in Congress on Friday with measures such as capping the price of rents and forcing the extension of contracts, the former mayor of Soria had already announced that if this rejection was carried out the body would ask him to call the general elections. And he insisted on that idea this Sunday: "When politics does not serve to solve the problems of citizens due to the irresponsible blockade of the extreme right, it is time to be able to convey the voice of the citizens so that they forcefully eradicate these forms of bad politics so that they do not take hold."

Emiliano García-Page (Castilla-La Mancha), Eneko Andueza (Basque Country) and Álvaro Sánchez Cotrina (Extremadura) have also publicly called for early elections. Others have privately conveyed their conviction that although it is an "opportunity." Others have privately conveyed their conviction that although it is "not a simple decision and has its risks" it is time to "move forward."

For now, Moncloa has reported that Sánchez will attend the opening of the XXIX National Congress of Family Business this Monday at 9:30 a.m. If I finally decided to press

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  • ?How will this internal pressure affect the stability of the Government?

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  • They argue that it is time for citizens to speak out in the face of the current political blockade.

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