PoliticsSpain’s Pedro Sánchez calls snap election after housing legislation fails

Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has called a general election for 29 November after the People’s party, Vox and Junts rejected his minority government’s emergency housing decrees. The vote follows nationwide protests over soaring rents and insecure tenancies, and Sánchez hopes the issue will rally leftwing voters.

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