Millions voice their fury in Spanish general strike – as the right gains ground in polls
The day of mass rallies in every major Spanish city called for action on salaries, housing and prices ahead of the country’s general election on November 29.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has held power since 2018 as the leader of the Socialists, but he is trailing in the polls behind the conservative People’s Party and its leader, Alberto Nunez Feijoo.
While Sanchez defeated Feijoo at the last election, in 2023, the latest survey by polling firm SocioMetrica found there had been a net transfer of 832,000 voters from the left to the right since its previous survey.
If the People’s Party combined with the hard-right Vox party, the polling firm forecast, the bloc would win about 200 seats of the 350 seats in the lower house. This would put the conservative side comfortably ahead of Sanchez and the Socialists with 108 seats, according to the results reported in Spanish newspaper El Español.
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