Spain PM pins hopes on housing crisis to help win snap election
Calling of a snap election was not a knee-jerk reaction from Pedro Sánchez but a carefully thought-out manoeuvre, Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid.
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"mobilise and ensure that parliament gives us a much bigger, progressive majority with which to defeat the elites, conquer social rights and keep transforming Spain."
— Pedro Sánchez , Politician
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Wife of Pedro Sánchez, facing trial over allegations of misuse of funds.
Chair of the Socialist Party (PSOE) in Spain.
Former Spanish Prime Minister who governed from 2004 to 2011.
He is the Prime Minister of Spain.
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Calling of a snap election was not a knee-jerk reaction from Pedro Sánchez but a carefully thought-out manoeuvre, Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid.
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