Pedro Sánchez dissolves the Cortes and calls general elections for November 29

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Monday that he is dissolving the Cortes Generales and calling elections for next November 29. The housing crisis and the defeat in the vote on the decrees in Congress have precipitated a decision that completely changes the political scenario: the president takes the conflict to the electoral field.

The call comes after he insisted that he would exhaust the legislature, but finally the mandate that began after the July 2023 elections will last three years, one year less than expected. "The time has come for Spaniards to decide what future they want for themselves and their country," said Sánchez in a very political speech that already had the aroma of an electoral campaign rally in which he even appealed to citizens to decide if they want Spain to join the "far-right wave" and if they want the country to "go back or continue moving forward."