Snap elections in Spain will most likely produce a center-right government dependent on far-right support, which would end three years of legislative paralysis but raise the risk of social unrest and renewed tension with Catalonia, while an unlikely victory for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's fractious alliance would prolong the deadlock. Sanchez announced in a televised address on Oct. 5 that Spain will hold an early general election on Nov. 29, about eight months before the end of the parliamentary term. The decision came three days after the Congress of Deputies rejected two government decrees to strengthen tenant protections, with the center-right Popular Party (PP), the far-right Vox and the Catalan center-right pro-independence Junts party voting against. The government had approved the decrees on Sept. 29 in response to days of nationwide mass protests over housing costs.