The President of the Government dissolves the Cortes and calls elections for 29 November after Congress rejected two housing decrees on Friday. The campaign will start on 13 November.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced on Monday the dissolution of the Cortes and the call for general elections on 29 November. The decision comes after Congress rejected two decrees from the Executive on housing on Friday, according to oncubanews.com.
Sánchez communicated the advance in an institutional statement from the Palacio de la Moncloa, after informing King Felipe VI. The President justified the call by the need for a broader parliamentary majority to push his programme forward.
«We need a much broader progressive majority»
The parliamentary defeat on Friday occurred with votes against from the Popular Party, Vox, and Junts, which were decisive in overturning the two housing decrees. The rejection highlighted the difficulties faced by the Executive in gathering a stable majority.
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, welcomed the announcement and urged Spaniards to reflect a political change at the polls. In a statement from the party headquarters in Madrid, Feijóo claimed that the call responds to Sánchez's “fear” over corruption cases affecting the PSOE and argued that the President's management deserves “the greatest punishment”.
«Finally, the Spaniards will decide»
The popular leader framed the elections as a choice between “decadence”, “lies”, “incompetence”, and “corruption” or “change”, asserting that these elections are not like the previous ones: they are for “Spain to defeat Sánchez”.
The electoral calendar kicks off this Tuesday 6 October with the publication of the call decree in the Official State Gazette and the opening of the period to request postal voting. Parties will have until 16 October to announce electoral coalitions, and the presentation of candidacies will take place between 21 and 26 October.
The electoral campaign will officially begin on 13 November and will run until midnight on 27. The 28 will be a day of reflection, and on 29 November, Spaniards will go to the polls to renew the Congress of Deputies and the Senate.
The dissolution of the Cortes brings an early end to the legislature, which was supposed to last until 2027, and opens a period of nearly eight weeks until the elections.
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