Spanish PM Sánchez calls snap general election
after disastrous results in local elections
Pedro Sánchez called for early elections on July 23
after his Socialist party suffered heavy losses across Spain in regional and
municipal elections Sunday.
BY AITOR
HERNÁNDEZ-MORALES
MAY 29,
2023 11:39 AM CET
Spanish
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday called for snap elections to be held on
July 23.
Spain was
due to hold general elections by the end of the year, but the Socialist leader
announced his decision to move up the date following Sunday’s local elections,
which saw his party suffer heavy losses across the country.
The July 23
general election means that the vote will be held just three weeks after Spain
takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union.
With the
Socialist party polling six points behind the center-right Popular Party (PP),
that scenario opens up the possibility that the rotating presidency may begin
with Sánchez as prime minister but conclude with PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo
as Spain’s head of government.
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