Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez cast Spain’s Nov. 29 election as a choice over its political direction, rejecting the idea that foreign capitals would direct the country, the PSOE said.
At a Nov. 7 campaign event in Tarragona, Sánchez named Washington, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires and Moscow as capitals that would not govern Spain. “Spain is governed from Spain,” he said, according to the PSOE’s account. He urged voters to resist what he called the international far right.
EFE said Sánchez linked Europe’s far right to foreign backers at a Nov. 2 Barcelona forum and criticized mainstream-right alliances for bringing far-right positions into the political mainstream.
Separately, Sánchez said in an Oct. 5 statement that Spain would not sacrifice its welfare state to meet a defense-spending target of 5% of gross domestic product. La Moncloa’s official record says he announced the general election for Nov. 29 that day.
