Early Election Decision in Spain: Pedro Sanchez Announced He Will Go to the Polls on November 29

After the two decrees proposing solutions to the housing problem, passed by the Council of Ministers on September 29, were rejected in the parliamentary vote on October 2, Sanchez announced the decision for early elections by giving a live speech closed to the press at the Prime Ministry's residence, Moncloa.

In Madrid, the capital of Spain, mass protests began for a woman who had been living in the same house for 70 years but was kicked out because she could not afford the last rent increase.

Sanchez stated that he made the election decision by exchanging views with leading figures of his party over the weekend, which he described as a "time to think".

Stating that he met with the President of Spain, King Felipe VI, Sanchez stated that the Council of Ministers will hold an extraordinary meeting and decide to dissolve the parliament and that early general elections will be held on November 29.

"You will decide what future you want for yourself and your children." Addressing the Spaniards, Sanchez said:

“You decide whether you want to join the far-right wave that has caused decline wherever it has been in power, or whether you want to give Spain a larger progressive majority and ensure that it remains a bastion of openness and social justice, a global benchmark for peace, feminism and prosperity.”

Sanchez also stated that in the last 3.5 years in power, they "faced unprecedented crises such as wars and geopolitical turmoil, and fought against tyrants, techno-oligarchs and genocidal regimes."

Sanchez, who has been the prime minister in Spain since 2018, formed the minority left-wing coalition government in November 2023, together with the Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the far-left Sumar alliance, which he led, after the last general elections held on July 23, 2023.

The latest polls published in the country show that the right and far right will come to power with a coalition in a possible election.

While the main opposition People's Party (PP), which currently has the most MPs in the parliament, is shown as the winner of the upcoming elections in all surveys, it is claimed that it will gain a sufficient majority to form a coalition with the far-right Vox party.