– I have suggested a dissolution of parliament and call for elections on 28 april. I am convinced that it is possible to return to a responsible policy, ” says Sánchez in a speech broadcast on tv.
– In the choice between to continue without a budget, and to ask the spaniards to say, I chose the second option. Spain needs to continue to advance and grow with tolerance, respect and common sense.
The Spanish king is informed of the date for the election.
Pedro Sánchez. Photo: Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP
scant nine months after he seized power. This after having forced a vote of confidence against the then prime minister Mariano Rajoy. Sánchez has, during his short time on the item received praise for having appointed a government with a majority of women, and to have raised the minimum wage in the country by 22 per cent.
the Decision to accept, were Aquarius, with over 600 migrants who refused to get in the country of Italy in the summer of 2018, also met by praise from the outside world.
encountered problems, particularly around the infected question of independence for Catalonia. His proposal calls for to soften tensions around Catalonia aroused bad blood among the opposition, and got thousands of Madrileños gather in protest against the government earlier in February.
the Government’s draft budget for 2019 was voted in last Wednesday down in parliament. Two Catalan separatistpartier – with whose support He came to power in the summer – voted against the budget together with the conservative PP and the military is Ciudadanos.
criticism of the PP and Ciudadanos in his speech.
” Everything is paralysed, because of the greed of the PP and Ciudadanos, who counted with a majority in congress.
And it is the Catalan självständighetsfrågan, which really permeates all Spanish policy now, which should be the cause of sidbytet. Deliberations between the government and the separatistsidan broke down on Friday, because the government refused to discuss the possibility of a referendum on independence for the region of Catalonia.
” We have plunged the Sánchez government, says the PP leader of the opposition, Pablo Casado news of the election, according to the AFP news agency.
would actually have been held in the middle of next year. The spaniards will now go to the polls twice on a button of the month – 26 may is the time for municipal and regional elections and elections to the european Parliament. It has not been two choices in such a short time in the country since 1979, according to the Spanish newspaper El País.
Polls have shown that no party at the moment has enough support to govern alone.
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