Elections were called early after incumbent PM Sanchez’s PSOE party suffered heavy losses in the May local elections.

Source: https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/week-ahead-highlights-include-fomc-us-gdp-pce-ecb-boj-flash-pmis-20230723/

His socialist party—the Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol (PSOE)—had not won the elections, but the party that had won the most votes, the conservative Partido Popular, had not been able to put together a parliamentary majority.

Source: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/12/27/spains-worrisome-frankenstein-coalition-government/

However, the PSOE and its partners in the leftwing Sumar alliance have been able to muster the necessary backing by promising the amnesty to the two main Catalan pro-independence parties in return for their support.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/12/protests-spain-amnesty-deal-catalan-separatists-independence

Sanchez, 51, came second in the July 23 vote, his Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) trailing the PP by a narrower-than-expected 1.4 percentage points.

Source: https://www.rawstory.com/a-compromise-too-far-spains-sanchez-has-little-wiggle-room-to-stay-in-power/

Sanchez called today’s general election after his PSOE socialists suffered heavy defeats in May’s regional and municipal elections.

Source: https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2023/07/23/pm-sanchez-waits-to-see-if-spain-general-election-gamble-pays-off/

Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) prime minister Pedro Sánchez, politician of multiple personae, has already chosen his role in this show as “The Workers’ Champion”.

Source: https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/spain-pedro-sanchez-launches-class-war-election-campaign

“These are values that the traditional PSOE electorate does not understand,” said Pascual.

Source: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/05/30/spain-pms-shock-election-call-brings-unruly-coalition-to-heel/

Weber’s remarks drew a withering reply from Iratxe García, the leader of the Socialists and Democrats group and who is from Sánchez’s PSOE party.

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-manfred-weber-iratxe-garcia-spain-stance-arming-ukraine/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

While the PSOE lost 13 seats in the 12 regional assemblies contested, Unidas Podemos (UP), its minor partner in government, lost 33 regional seats.

Source: https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/spain-sanchez-counters-rout-local-polls-general-election-call