Spanish Prime Minister: The Far-Right Wave is "Collapsing"

Madrid – Agencies: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that “the far-right wave is collapsing,” following the Democrats’ landslide victory in the US midterm elections, just weeks before Spain’s early legislative elections on November 29. Sánchez wrote on the X platform, “The American public voted against policies that only lead to increased poverty. They voted against hatred, misogyny, climate change denial, and elite privileges. This has already happened in Brazil, has just happened in the United States, and will soon happen in Spain.” He added, “The far-right wave that Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Maricar Abascal (the leaders of the right and far-right in Spain) are betting will continue is no longer advancing; it is collapsing.” The Democrats secured a decisive victory by winning majorities in both chambers of the US Congress in the midterm elections, which turned into a harsh defeat for Republicans and President Donald Trump. Weeks earlier, left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won unexpectedly in Brazil. In Spain, opinion polls favor the right, represented by the People’s Party, which may need the support of the far-right Vox party to secure an absolute majority. After failing to pass two bills in parliament aimed at addressing the severe housing crisis affecting the entire country, Sánchez called for early legislative elections on November 29 in early October, hoping to capitalize on public anger over this crisis. Since then, the election campaign has been overshadowed by a terrifying train crash in Orduña, south of Madrid, which claimed at least 69 lives last week, marking the country’s second major rail disaster in less than a year.