Spain PM pins hopes on housing crisis to help win snap election
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called for a snap election on November 29 following a parliamentary defeat regarding housing reform. His administration faces multiple challenges, including corruption allegations, a migrant crisis in Ceuta, and a trial involving his wife.
Why it matters
The snap election represents a high-stakes political gamble for the Spanish government as it struggles with internal scandals and external logistical crises.
Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The chair of Sánchez's Socialist Party (PSOE) Cristina Narbona and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez during a meeting earlier on Monday
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's decision to call a snap election for 29 November came on the back of a parliamentary defeat.
On Friday, the raft of measures he had presented to congress aimed at improving conditions for tenants and trying to address the problem of soaring rentals was narrowly rejected, as parties on the right voted against them.
That parliamentary result confirmed that Sánchez's left-wing coalition no longer commanded a majority.
But as has so often been the case throughout Sánchez's career, the calling of the election was not a knee-jerk reaction but a carefully thought-out manouevre.
His government has been struggling in recent months.
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