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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced a snap general election for November 29 on Sunday, a gamble forced by a minority government that can no longer pass its own agenda. The move came days after Spain’s Congress rejected two of his housing decrees, with his former Catalan allies in Junts joining the center-right People’s Party and the conservative Vox to sink the measures.
The defeats laid bare what has been true for months: Sánchez’s PSOE-Sumar coalition lost its working majority when Junts walked away, leaving the government paralyzed and dependent on a patchwork of separatists and far-left partners to survive each vote. Rather than limp toward the 2027 deadline, Sánchez chose to dissolve parliament and roll the dice.
In a televised address, the embattled prime minister framed the early vote as a bid for a “broader progressive majority” to overcome the “resistance of the elites,” and warned darkly of a far-right turn. It is familiar language from a leader who has spent years casting every opponent as a threat to democracy while clinging to power through ever-shakier alliances.
The polls tell a different story than the one Sánchez is selling. The People’s Party leads at roughly 32 to 34 percent, with Vox in third around 18 percent — a combination that points toward a PP-Vox government and the first participation of a genuine conservative force in national power in the post-Franco era. Sánchez’s Socialists trail near 26 percent.
The snap call arrives atop a pile of troubles the government would rather voters forget: corruption scandals reaching into PSOE’s inner circle, a migration crisis that saw tens of thousands storm the North African enclave of Ceuta, and an affordability squeeze that has driven Spaniards into the streets over housing. Sánchez is betting he can turn the page before the bill comes due. On November 29, Spanish voters get to decide whether they have had enough.
