The opposition has put the Spanish president in trouble and could call early elections

The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, could be forced to call early elections after the Catalan separatists did not approve the general budgets of the executive for 2019.

The Spanish parliament on Wednesday rejected the 2019 draft budget of the socialist government of Pedro Sanchez, the first presented since taking office in June, which now opens the door to a Electoral advance possible.

With 191 votes in favor and 158 against, the lower house has approved six amendments in total submitted by the right-wing opposition and Catalan separatists, which means that budgets are being rejected.

Pedro Sanchez came to the presidency of the government last year when Catalans joined the anti-austerity training of Podemos and smaller organizations to support the motion of censure addressed to his predecessor, conservative Mariano Rajoy.

The motion was presented by the PSOE, a day after the Gürtel case was known, a plot of corruption in which a series of companies bribed officials of the Rajoy People 's Party to obtain public contracts between 1999 and 2005. In addition to sentencing 29 people to 351 years in prison, including a dozen photos of PPThe sentence compelled the party to pay a fine as a "lucrative participant" and called into question the credibility of Rajoy's judicial declaration, which he said was unaware of any illegal financing of the party.

The situation of Sanchez's party was weak from the start: he barely controls 84 of the 350 seats in the lower house. While negotiations with the new coalition for independence that took control of Catalonia, after the failed secession attempt of 2017, broke out last week when the executive of Sánchez refused to accept conversations on self-determination of the northeastern region of Spain.