This was announced on Monday by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. Postponement of the general elections in Spain to Sunday, July 23or, after the poor result of its formation, the Socialist Party in Sunday’s municipal and regional elections. Pedro Sanchez, speaking in Madrid, explained that, having notified the head of state, King Felipe VI, The official announcement of the elections will be published on Tuesday. with the dissolution of Parliament. The head of government noted that this afternoon extraordinary meeting of the executive power, a coalition consisting of Sánchez’s socialist PSOE party and the left-wing formation Unidas Podemos. Sanchez said he was advancing in the elections since the legislature ended in December, subject to the election results on Sunday for city halls and various regional governments, which led to the loss of the institutional power of the socialists. These elections made turn right in spain, with the victory of the conservative People’s Party (NP). Executive President assumed “in first person” these resultsin which voters sent a “message that went beyond” municipal and regional governments. “It is best that the Spaniards take the floor and speak out,” he said, noting that numerous local and regional institutions will be run by a new majority made up of conservatives and the far right of Vox, who also improved their results on Sunday. “I consider it necessary to give an answer and submit our democratic mandate” to the ballot box, He emphasized, stressing that his government has fulfilled its program and Spain is going to emerge from the crisis caused by the pandemic and the consequences of the war in Ukraine, in the context of economic growth and job creation.

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