On Wednesday, the Spanish executive failed to gather a majority of votes in Parliament around its draft budget law for 2019.
The head of the Spanish Socialist government, Pedro Sanchez, announced Friday, February 15, the convening of early elections for April 28, after only eight months in power. „I proposed the dissolution of Parliament and the convening of legislative elections for April 28,“ said Pedro Sanchez after an extraordinary cabinet meeting.
On Wednesday, the Spanish executive failed to gather a majority of votes in Parliament on its draft budget law for 2019. The budget was rejected by 191 votes to 158 and one abstention. The Catalan separatists preferred to let go of the socialist leader on the grounds that he did not agree to negotiate a referendum of self-determination in Catalonia.
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