{"id":466779,"date":"2026-10-05T10:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/10\/05\/spagna-al-voto-anticipato-il-29-novembre-sanchez-sfida-la-destra-su-casa-e-diritti-sociali\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:59:14","slug":"spain-heads-to-the-polls-for-snap-election-on-29-november-sanchez-challenges-the-right-on-housing-and-social-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/10\/05\/spain-heads-to-the-polls-for-snap-election-on-29-november-sanchez-challenges-the-right-on-housing-and-social-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain heads to the polls for snap election on 29 November; S\u00e1nchez challenges the right on housing and social rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Spain is set to go to the polls on 29 November for snap elections<\/strong> announced by Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, who is calling on citizens to vote to openly challenge the People\u2019s Party, a political group in the EPP family in Europe. S\u00e1nchez did not announce his resignation \u2013 a word he never uttered during his speech, which lasted around 15 minutes \u2013 but he did announce the convening of \u201can extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers\u201d to work on the election campaign: \u201cLet the Spanish people now choose which path Spain should take: that of the far right, which seeks to curtail social rights for the benefit of a privileged minority, or that of a bastion of progressivism.\u201d <\/p>\n

This is the challenge issued to what he describes as \u201cthe worst opposition in democratic history, devoid of any sense of institutional responsibility.\u201d An accusation directed at the Spanish People\u2019s Party, which has been at the forefront of the campaign to have the government\u2019s decrees on tackling the housing crisis in Spain rejected in Parliament. On the one hand, the vote triggers a government crisis\u2014with S\u00e1nchez losing the support of the Catalan separatists<\/strong>; on the other hand, it has sparked popular protests, with street demonstrations and strikes, as well as S\u00e1nchez\u2019s counteroffensive, as he now calls on citizens for a broader mandate: \u201cParliament must have a broader progressive majority<\/strong>\u201d to advance an agenda focused on social rights, he stressed. <\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez is seeking the support of the masses, stressing that those who have said \u2018no\u2019 to greater housing rights and, ultimately, to easy evictions are those who own two or more properties<\/a>. The outgoing prime minister is rallying people against this Parliament and these political parties, especially the People\u2019s Party and Vox: \u201cThere are social injustices to be rectified and social objectives to be achieved,\u201d he insists. This requires a clear mandate from the electorate, which S\u00e1nchez is calling for in the 29 November vote. <\/p>\n

The Socialist leader recalls what the government has achieved over the past three-year term of office (S\u00e1nchez\u2019s third term): \u201cWe have supported Ukraine, denounced genocides<\/a> while others looked the other way, tackled crises and responded to unilateral decisions.\u201d He makes no direct reference to specific issues or individuals. Still, criticism of Donald Trump\u2019s United States and the conduct of Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s Israeli government is implicit in his speech, as is criticism of European allies over the Ceuta crisis, which also implicates Italy. \u201cWe are among the fastest-growing countries; we have accelerated the use of NextGenerationEU funds and brought social inequality down to its lowest level since records began,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n

 S\u00e1nchez is going all out to win over Spain and establish himself as an alternative to the far right, both in Europe and, above all, in today\u2019s world. He fires another shot at the Spanish People\u2019s Party when he points out that the central government, the one he presides over, \u201chas allocated funds to local governments which have then privatised healthcare.<\/strong>\u201d This is the Spanish opposition that \u201chas proposed nothing\u201d but \u201chas merely boycotted our work at local level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Social problems in France too<\/h4>\n

 It is open warfare in a Europe where the rollback of social rights is fueling heated debate\u2014and more. While in Madrid the rejection of the housing decrees has led to demonstrations and strikes, in France students are rioting in the city streets, driven by youthful discontent stemming from unaddressed issues regarding the right to education, including a shortage of teachers and overcrowded classrooms. This protest is overshadowing the demands of public-sector workers, who complain of wages that are too low in the face of an excessively high cost of living, and of firefighters, who call for more staff and equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Prime Minister has responded to the rejection of his plan to tackle the housing crisis by calling a snap election, effectively seeking a new term with a broader majority. \u201cNow it is up to the Spanish people to decide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":466756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681,29788],"tags":[28802,28090,27709,28091,26870,33394],"class_list":["post-466779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-diritti-en","tag-elections-anticipated-en","tag-home-at","tag-pedro-sanchez-en","tag-right-to-home-en","tag-spain-en","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466780,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466779\/revisions\/466780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}