Spain will hold an early general election Nov. 29 after Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez dissolved parliament and called a snap vote in early October . Sanchez, who has been in power since 2018, made this decision after his minority government failed to pass a series of housing market reforms amid countrywide protests and insufficient support from other parties in congress. In recent years, members of the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, or PSOE, have been implicated in multiple corruption cases, while some members of Sanchez's family (including his wife and brother) have also been investigated for alleged corruption. More recently, a migrant crisis in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta , where an estimated 80,000 people entered Spain from Morocco in one day, led to strong criticism from the conservative opposition against the government's protection of Spain's borders and, more broadly, its looser migration policy.