Sánchez to call snap election on 29 November after Junts rejects housing decrees
OKDIARIO reports that Pedro Sánchez will call a general election on 29 November after Junts voted down his housing decrees. Here are the key points.
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## Sánchez eyes 29 November after Junts' no
The general election that **OKDIARIO** says **Pedro Sánchez** will call is set for **29 November**. The prime minister is said to be determined to dissolve parliament and hold a snap election on that date. The parliamentary term would be cut short after Junts slammed the door on the housing decrees.
Junts' executive met urgently on Thursday, led by Jordi Turull, and unanimously decided to vote against the two housing decrees. With the seven Puigdemont MPs opposed, the arithmetic left the government without a majority.
The PP, Vox, UPN and Coalición Canaria have 172 votes. With the Catalan independence parties, that rises to 179, against 171 for the left. Sánchez had promised to serve the full term until 2027. In practice, that promise lasted until Congress said no.
## Why the calendar points to 29 November
The law requires the vote to be held **54 days** after the election is called. If Sánchez signs the dissolution decree and it is published in the **BOE** on Tuesday, Spaniards would vote on the last Sunday of November. That is the date that fits the electoral calendar and the decision OKDIARIO attributes to the prime minister.
The announcement could have come earlier. The initial idea was to call the election on Friday itself, to coincide with the vote on the decrees in Congress. Moncloa expected the radical left to take to the streets over housing. The protests fizzled out. With no pressure on the streets, the announcement was put on hold and Sánchez gave himself the weekend to decide.
## What Moncloa expects from the campaign
In his inner circle, most had already advised him to go to the polls on 29 November. "We have to make a virtue of necessity," they told him. That hard core is made up of ministers **Félix Bolaños**, Óscar Puente, Fernando Grande-Marlaska and Carlos Cuerpo, along with his chief of staff, Diego Rubio. They were in contact throughout Thursday night.
Moncloa is convinced that the PSOE has a chance if it focuses the campaign on housing and the threat of the far right. It is the same antiestéticar-based recipe that worked for Sánchez in 2023. The polls they handle put the Socialists above **110 seats**, far from the **121** of three years ago. His former chief of staff, Iván Redondo, has told him that the PSOE has at least a chance of beating the PP.
## What remains of Congress and housing policy
The economic trigger is clear: the housing decrees fail. **Junts** voted against them and with that brought down the last piece sustaining the majority. For a household economy waiting for rental assistance, price caps or land measures, the message is uncomfortable. The legislative process stops. Economic policy enters caretaker mode.
A person close to the prime minister explains it without electoral calculation: when a government wants to solve a problem and parliament denies it support, "the right thing is to stop." The election call would leave parliament dissolved and any pending economic measure up in the air.
No date is official until the dissolution decree is published in the **BOE**. Everything depends on a decision that OKDIARIO takes as a given, but that only the prime minister can sign.
The general election that **OKDIARIO** says **Pedro Sánchez** will call is set for **29 November**. The prime minister is said to be determined to dissolve parliament and hold a snap election on that date. The parliamentary term would be cut short after Junts slammed the door on the housing decrees.
Junts' executive met urgently on Thursday, led by Jordi Turull, and unanimously decided to vote against the two housing decrees. With the seven Puigdemont MPs opposed, the arithmetic left the government without a majority.
The PP, Vox, UPN and Coalición Canaria have 172 votes. With the Catalan independence parties, that rises to 179, against 171 for the left. Sánchez had promised to serve the full term until 2027. In practice, that promise lasted until Congress said no.
## Why the calendar points to 29 November
The law requires the vote to be held **54 days** after the election is called. If Sánchez signs the dissolution decree and it is published in the **BOE** on Tuesday, Spaniards would vote on the last Sunday of November. That is the date that fits the electoral calendar and the decision OKDIARIO attributes to the prime minister.
The announcement could have come earlier. The initial idea was to call the election on Friday itself, to coincide with the vote on the decrees in Congress. Moncloa expected the radical left to take to the streets over housing. The protests fizzled out. With no pressure on the streets, the announcement was put on hold and Sánchez gave himself the weekend to decide.
## What Moncloa expects from the campaign
In his inner circle, most had already advised him to go to the polls on 29 November. "We have to make a virtue of necessity," they told him. That hard core is made up of ministers **Félix Bolaños**, Óscar Puente, Fernando Grande-Marlaska and Carlos Cuerpo, along with his chief of staff, Diego Rubio. They were in contact throughout Thursday night.
Moncloa is convinced that the PSOE has a chance if it focuses the campaign on housing and the threat of the far right. It is the same antiestéticar-based recipe that worked for Sánchez in 2023. The polls they handle put the Socialists above **110 seats**, far from the **121** of three years ago. His former chief of staff, Iván Redondo, has told him that the PSOE has at least a chance of beating the PP.
## What remains of Congress and housing policy
The economic trigger is clear: the housing decrees fail. **Junts** voted against them and with that brought down the last piece sustaining the majority. For a household economy waiting for rental assistance, price caps or land measures, the message is uncomfortable. The legislative process stops. Economic policy enters caretaker mode.
A person close to the prime minister explains it without electoral calculation: when a government wants to solve a problem and parliament denies it support, "the right thing is to stop." The election call would leave parliament dissolved and any pending economic measure up in the air.
No date is official until the dissolution decree is published in the **BOE**. Everything depends on a decision that OKDIARIO takes as a given, but that only the prime minister can sign.
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