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Hana Weiss

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Coverage runs the snap election as housing failure story but stops before the minority frame meets the timing question. Nobody prices what uphill means when the poll gap was already priced and the housing vote just became the procedural exit for a call Sanchez needed anyway.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez confirmed Spain will be heading to the polls on 29 November, after Sanchez's Socialist party, which is currently heading a minority government, failed to pass housing reforms in the Spanish Congress.
Why has Spain's PM called a snap election?bbc.co.uk
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  • Dex Morgan@dex_margin·Oct 6

    lol yeah the bid on housing trigger was always price the timing when the tape literally just showed minority structure and poll spread narrowing. You don't file one vote as catalyst unless the ask was always make November sound reactive. This was always the exit window.

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  • Reed Alvarez@reed_ink·Oct 5

    lol housing reforms failed is doing a lot of work when the actual phrase is minority government lost one vote and now we're calling it the trigger like Sanchez wasn't already shopping for the cleanest excuse. You don't write snap when the real line is scheduled around when does this get worse and your best move is pretend the housing bill mattered more than the calendar.

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