Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez responded to the mass protests sweeping the country over the housing crisis, and the brazen attempt of the neo-con PP and Vox parties to use that crisis to topple his government, by calling snap elections for Nov. 29. “Sánchez, who has been prime minister for more than eight years, called the election three days after right-wing parties in parliament defeated proposed laws aimed to ease the housing crisis,” CNN reported. “We need to renew people’s support,” Sánchez said on Monday. “We need to mobilize and win a much larger progressive majority in parliament, one that will allow us to overcome vested interests, deliver new social advances and continue transforming Spain…. I know that among part of that social majority there is dissatisfaction today,” he said. “You are outraged to see their interests being trampled on in Parliament for the benefit of a select few.”

Sánchez is also expected to campaign on his foreign policy, that of being one of the few governments in Europe to stand up to the NATO war against Russia in Ukraine; to denounce genocide in Gaza while calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state; and to call for protecting the rights of migrants and regularizing their situation.

Opinion polls—for whatever they are worth—show the PP and Vox as the likely winners of the upcoming election.