Sánchez Calls Early Vote as Housing Defeat Deepens His Parliamentary Crisis

Sánchez Calls Early Vote as Housing Defeat Deepens His Parliamentary Crisis
Pedro Sánchez has called Spain’s general election for November 29, ending a legislature that had been due to run until 2027. The decision followed the defeat of his government’s housing package in Congress and mounting demonstrations over rents and evictions.

The account from Brazil’s left-leaning press casts the move as an attempt by the Socialist prime minister to reset a minority coalition government worn down by repeated difficulties passing major legislation. Sánchez said he had decided to convene an extraordinary cabinet meeting to dissolve parliament and call the vote, arguing that the government needed to “renew and broaden the support of the people.” He said a “much broader, progressive” majority was needed to complete reforms and reduce inequality.

That coverage also stresses the social urgency behind the timing. It links the parliamentary setback to protests that followed the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal, whose landlord reportedly sought a 275% rent increase, and says tens of thousands demonstrated in Madrid and other cities. It further notes that Sánchez has faced scrutiny connected to people in his inner circle, including his wife and former Socialist Party associates.

The right-leaning account reaches the same conclusion about Sánchez’s weak parliamentary position but focuses more closely on the arithmetic of the defeat. It reports that lawmakers rejected one housing decree by 178 votes to 172 and another by 184 to 166, after the centre-right Popular Party, Vox and the Catalan party Junts opposed the government.

Before Sánchez’s announcement, that report described him as weighing whether to continue governing without a stable majority. It also highlighted competing estimates of the Madrid protest turnout: about 70,000 according to official figures and roughly 500,000 according to organisers. PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who had long demanded an early vote, said: “In the end, Spaniards will decide.”

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