Sanchez says Americans voted against hatred and elite privilege in US elections

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that in the US midterm elections, where Democrats gained control of both chambers of Congress, Americans voted against policies that impoverish people, hatred and elite privilege. He said the same would soon happen in Spain, where general elections will be held on November 29.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez commented on the results of the US midterm elections, in which Democrats gained majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate, according to projections by CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC News. “Yesterday, American society voted against policies that only lead to impoverishment. Against hatred,” the leader of Spain’s Socialists wrote on X. Reuters reported that Sanchez also said Americans had rejected machismo, climate change denial and elite privilege.

Pedro Sanchez at a press conference (archive)

A message to Spanish opponents

Sanchez directed his remarks primarily at his domestic rivals: conservative People’s Party leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo and Santiago Abascal, leader of the far-right Vox party. “The far-right wave that Feijoo and Abascal are trying to ride is no longer growing: it is collapsing,” the prime minister said. “This happened in Brazil. It has just happened in the US. And it will soon happen in Spain,” he added.

The November 29 election

The statement came several weeks before Spain’s general election, scheduled for November 29. The day before, Transport Minister Oscar Puente left Sanchez’s government following a high-speed train collision near Urda that killed 69 people. The right-wing press viewed the prime minister’s post critically: OKDiario wrote that Sanchez, trailing in the polls, was trying to claim the Democrats’ victory over Trump as his own.

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