Politics · Spain · 11 hrs ago
Sánchez urges voters to back a new progressive government in Spain
Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister and Socialist Party candidate, spoke at a campaign rally in Ponferrada, in León.
He urged pensioners, women, LGTBI people, workers and young people to vote for a new progressive government.
Sánchez said his government’s policies had benefited these groups during the past eight years.
He also called on the Supreme Court to protect the voting rights of 400,000 people covered by the so-called grandchildren’s law.
Housing and public services were among the issues he raised, as he criticized the plans of the conservative People’s Party and Vox.
The election will decide whether Sánchez can lead another coalition government.
Spain’s national election is scheduled for 29 November.
Pedro Sánchez urged pensioners, women, LGTBI people, workers and young people to mobilize behind a new progressive government.
At a campaign rally in Ponferrada, he said he expected the PSOE to win the November 29 election and form another coalition government.
Sánchez called on Spain’s Supreme Court to protect the voting rights of 400,000 people covered by the “law of grandchildren.”
He criticized the PP and Vox, describing their project as backward and warning that it could bring cuts or recession.
He also set out goals including more protected housing, greater representation for women and more renewable electricity.
- Who
- Pedro Sánchez, leader of the PSOE and Spain’s prime minister, called on voters to support a new progressive government.
- What
- He urged several groups to mobilize and called on the Supreme Court to protect the voting rights of 400,000 people covered by the “law of grandchildren.
- When
- October 11, 2026. The election is scheduled for November 29.
- Where
- A campaign rally in Ponferrada, León, Spain.
- Why
- Sánchez said his government’s policies had benefited these groups and called for a broad progressive majority to advance social gains.
Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE
The PP and Vox
Political direction
Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE
Sánchez said Spain should continue advancing under a progressive government.
The PP and Vox
Sánchez described the PP and Vox project as backward and warned it could lead to cuts or recession.
Voting rights
Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE
Sánchez urged the Supreme Court to guarantee the vote to 400,000 people covered by the “law of grandchildren.
The PP and Vox
Sánchez accused the PP of wanting to take away their voting rights.
I will do everything to guarantee decent housing for the young and not so young in our country.
The choice is whether we want to keep advancing or open the door to cuts or recession.
What do you imagine we could achieve with a broad progressive majority in the next Parliament?
PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo said in Madrid that he would ask for sacrifices and not seek applause.
Sánchez spoke at a pre-campaign rally in Ponferrada and urged voters to back a progressive government.
Spain’s election is scheduled to take place.
- Rally location
- Ponferrada, León
- Election date
- November 29, 2026
- Voters covered by the law of grandchildren
- 400,000
- Potential pensioner votes
- More than 9 million
- Protected housing goal
- 6%
- Renewable electricity goal
- 80%
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