Pedro Sánchez has called for early elections in Spain: it will be April 28

The President of the Spanish Government, the Socialist Pedro Sánchezannounced the progress of legislative elections, after the right and Catalan separatists rejected their budget plans for 2019 in Parliament on Wednesday.

The elections will be the third in three and a half years and they were summoned by Sanchez, who a little over eight months in power and bet on the success of this budget to exhaust the legislature in the middle of 2020.

The situation was precipitated when the lower house Wednesday he voted six amendments to the set, presented against the draft state budget.

The government defended the text for its social significance, but with 191 votes in favor and 158 against, the amendments flourished, so the first budgets presented by Sánchez they were rejected.

Sanchez came to power in June, thanks to a successful vote of no confidence against his conservative predecessor. Mariano Rajoy, sunk by a judicial conviction by corruption against his party, the PP.

The motion flourished with the support of the radical left of Podemos, Catalan separatists and Basque nationalists. Sanchez took the reins of Minority Government of Spanish Democracy, with its 84 socialist deputies out of 350 in the lower house, on a heterogeneous basis that, these last weeks, was cracked on the Catalan side.

The weight of the Catalan crisis

The electoral advance was sketched the day after it was opened in the Supreme Court, in Madrid, the lawsuit against 12 Catalan separatist leaders for his involvement in the frustrated secession attempt of 2017.

A historic trial that has stretched to the extreme the relations between the Spanish executive and the 17 Catalan independence deputies of the lower house, indispensable to the prosperity of the budgets.

Sánchez himself has worked during these eight months of dialogue with the separatists in power in Catalonia. But the dialogue was broken with the demand of these to negotiate the right to self-determination, inadmissible for Madrid..

The right is on the rise

In recent days, the government has adopted its own campaign tone, accusing the right and the independence opposition to certain budgets to represent, according to him, a restoration of rights after the Rajoy era (2011-2018).

"After 7 years of social injustice, the rights movement and independence will vote against social budgets. Both want the same thing: a Catalonia facing each other and a Spain facing each other", tweeted Pedro Sánchez on Tuesday, in anticipation of Wednesday's result.