Sánchez says election shift seen in Brazil and U.S. will soon reach Spain

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Americans voted in the midterm elections against policies that impoverish people and against hatred, arguing that the far-right wave is “collapsing” and that the same shift will reach Spain, which holds general elections on November 29.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez viewed the Democrats’ victory in both chambers of the U.S. Congress in the midterm elections as a sign of the far right’s decline worldwide, predicting that the shift would reach his country as it heads to the polls on November 29. Sánchez linked Brazil, the United States and Spain in a post, writing: “It happened in Brazil. It just happened in the United States. And it will happen soon in Spain.”

The socialist leader wrote on the platform X: “Yesterday, American society voted against policies that do nothing but impoverish people. Against hatred.” Reuters reported that he added that Americans had also voted against discrimination against women, climate change denial and elite privileges.

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A message to Feijóo and Abascal

Sánchez addressed his two main rivals, conservative People’s Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo and far-right Vox leader Santiago Abascal, saying: “The far-right wave that Feijóo and Abascal are trying to ride is no longer growing; it is collapsing.”

Sánchez’s remarks came at a sensitive time for his government, as Transport Minister Óscar Puente resigned on Tuesday amid a train collision disaster near the town of Orda that killed 69 people. The right-wing newspaper Okdiario accused the prime minister, whom it said was trailing in the polls, of trying to claim sole credit for the Democrats’ victory over Trump. In the United States, the Democrats won majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, according to projections by CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC.

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Sánchez says election shift seen in Brazil and U.S. will soon reach Spain