Spain to vote on November 29 after fall of Sánchez government

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced the dissolution of Parliament and the calling of early elections for the end of November, after the Congress of Deputies rejected his housing decrees. This was reported by RSI, which places the decision within the context of a government crisis triggered by the parliamentary defeat on the housing dossier.

The new elections are set for November 29, 2026. At the root of the crisis is a shortage of housing that the Bank of Spain estimates at around 700,000 units, a figure that, according to the account by Rivoluzione Anarchica, has turned the housing crisis into the country’s central political issue, ultimately leading to the fall of the government.

The path that led to the early dissolution of the Chambers is straightforward: the executive had relied on the housing decrees as its main response to social pressure linked to rental prices and housing scarcity; the rejection in Congress stripped Sánchez of the majority needed to pursue that line, pushing him to seek a new electoral mandate rather than continue with a government lacking parliamentary support on one of the issues most keenly felt by public opinion.

The choice to go to the polls at the end of the month, rather than attempt to rebuild a majority in Parliament, signals how far the housing issue is now seen as decisive for the outgoing government’s support. The figure estimated by the Bank of Spain — 700,000 missing homes — thus becomes the reference point with which Spain’s political forces will enter the coming weeks’ election campaign.

The November 29 elections will therefore take place against a backdrop marked by the protests for the right to housing already under way in the country, with the housing issue poised to remain at the center of the political confrontation until the vote.