🇪🇸🗳️ Spain will hold an early general election on Sunday, 29 November 2026, in which all 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 208 Senate seats will be renewed. Pedro Sánchez dissolved the Cortes on 5 October, more than nine months before the end of the legislature, after Congress rejected the decrees with which his Government intended to respond to the housing crisis. The call opens a short campaign of less than two months, in a scenario very different from 2023. Back then, the People’s Party (centre-right) won the election but failed to secure the investiture, and Sánchez renewed the presidency thanks to a heterogeneous majority of socialists, Sumar (left-wing labor and ecosocialism), and nationalist and pro-independence parties. Today, all polls published after the election call place PP under Alberto Núñez Feijóo in the lead, with numbers between 31% and 34% of the vote, and Vox at its historical peak, between 18% and 19.5%. Together they comfortably surpass the absolute majority of 176 deputies in surveys estimating seats, while the PSOE moves between 26% and 27.5%, and the left-wing space is divided between Frente Amplio and Podemos (both left-wing progressives). Over the next weeks I will be covering the different parties and candidates contending in the Spanish elections, their respective positions and their numbers in the polls, alongside a little analysis of each contender from a right-wing nationalist point of view.
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