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🚨 SPAIN: Two passenger trains have collided in Toledo, and two carriages have fallen down an embankment. Reports of many people injured; Cabinet members are suspending official activities. It's not looking good. (Photo via @el_pais)
Update:
• The collision has killed at least 68 people; 77 remain hospitalized, 15 in very serious condition.
• The toll could rise.
• How did a train carrying 397 people approach a stopped train carrying 147 for 17 minutes without intervention? Puente calls it “inexplicable.”
🇪🇸 Spain: The two housing decrees that Parliament killed last week? They are back to life and and least one of them is expected to survive a vote soon.
1/4 🗳️ BREAKING: Spain is going back to the polls.
Pedro Sánchez has called a snap general election for November 29, nine months early, after Friday’s defeat of his government’s two emergency housing decrees.
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3/4 So yes, housing helped bring down the legislature.
The election comes after the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal triggered a wave of housing protests, an enormous camp in Puerta del Sol, and demonstrations across Spain.
9/10 And now comes the really big question: are we getting a snap election soon? đź‘€
Several ministers and senior PSOE figures reportedly think Sánchez should pull the plug on his coalition government. Sánchez, however, is taking some time to decide what to do next.
10/10 So this weekend could be VERY interesting.
Sánchez is expected to watch what happens on the streets and weigh his options.
If he decides to dissolve Parliament quickly, Nov. 29 is the first available election date. We'll see what happens.
If you want to read more about this, check what I wrote for The Bubble here: thebubble.com/articles/parli…
5/10 Why?
Junts argued the measures could reduce rental supply and push prices even higher while failing to properly protect small property owners.
Instead, it handed the government its own 59-page proposal and demanded that they start negotiating again (they didn't).
7/10 So who killed them?
Center-right PP, far-right Vox, UPN and Junts voted against the first decree.
PNV and CoaliciĂłn Canaria joined them in rejecting the second.
Center-left PSOE, leftish Sumar, far-left Podemos and several other parties on the left backed the measures.