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'It will happen soon in Spain': Sánchez hails U.S. midterm rebuke of the far right
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Americans voted against "policies that only impoverish" and against hatred in the midterm elections that handed Democrats control of Congress, and predicted that the same shift would reach Spain, which holds a general election on Nov. 29.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez seized on the Democrats' midterm sweep in the United States on Wednesday, casting it as a turning point for the far right on both sides of the Atlantic and a preview of Spain's own general election on Nov. 29. "Yesterday, American society voted against policies that only impoverish. Against hatred," the Socialist leader wrote on X. According to Reuters, he also said U.S. voters had rejected machismo, climate change denial and the privileges of the elites.
Sánchez then turned to his domestic rivals, conservative Popular Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal of the far-right Vox. "The ultra wave that Feijóo and Abascal are trying to ride is no longer growing: it is collapsing," he wrote. "It happened in Brazil. It just happened in the U.S. And it will happen soon in Spain."
A campaign under pressure
The message comes at a difficult moment for Sánchez. On Tuesday, his transport minister, Óscar Puente, resigned over the Oct. 28 high-speed train collision near Urda that killed 69 people, and the prime minister heads into the Nov. 29 vote facing criticism from the right. The conservative outlet OKDiario accused Sánchez, who it said is trailing in the polls, of trying to claim the Democrats' victory over Trump as his own, while the Spanish news site Herqles described the post as Sánchez casting the U.S. result as a preview of the Nov. 29 vote.
In the U.S., Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate, according to projections by CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC News, leaving President Donald Trump facing an opposition-controlled Congress for the final two years of his term.
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