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Sanchez Announces Plans to Dissolve Parliament, Call Snap Elections

SPAIN
  • Bloomberg report that Spanish PM Sanchez is to dissolve parliament and declare snap elections for July 23rd. The call for fresh elections follows heavy losses in both regional and local elections this weekend, at which both the People's Party as well as the far-right Vox party won control of eight of the twelve regions that held votes.
  • Sanchez stated in a televised address "I take personal responsbility for the results". The sharp losses for Sanchez's socialist party puts the conservative People's Party in a strong position to regain power this year, in elections that were initially expected to be held in December.
  • The results helped prompt some modest outperformance in Spanish assets from the off Monday, but the strong showing faded from the open - putting the IBEX-35 higher by 0.2%, broadly inline with wider European indices.

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