Sánchez calls new election for March 28. April

In Spain, will take place on 28. April early parliamentary election. The socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced the decision on Friday in Madrid. The rejection of the budget by the Parliament triggered a crisis.

"I have the dissolution of Parliament and the calling of parliamentary elections for the 28. April suggested," said Sánchez after a special session of the Cabinet of Ministers on Friday. "Spain has not a Minute to lose, Spain will have to come forward," said the socialist politician. The next regular parliamentary elections would have been only in June due 2020.

budget denied

The rejection of the budget of the minority government by the Parliament, had triggered on Wednesday a crisis. The Catalan independence parties could prevent a new election. The separatist deputies in Madrid, Congreso de los Diputados, on whose support the minority government of the PSOE had to rely, but voted with the Conservatives and the liberals against the Bulgarian, because Sanchez had rejected to their demands.

Sanchez was the first came last June, after a vote of no confidence against his conservative predecessor, Mariano Rajoy, among other things, with the votes of the Catalan parties into office. At that time, the 46-Year-old had been letting on, given the weak Position of the socialists with only 84 out of a total of 350 deputies in the future elections, which he had avoided so far.

(oli/sda)

Created: 15.02.2019, 10:41 PM