Spain PM pins hopes on housing crisis to help win snap election

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap election, with the country’s housing crisis emerging as a central political issue. The move is described as a calculated electoral strategy rather than a sudden reaction.

Calling of a snap election was not a knee-jerk reaction from Pedro Sánchez but a carefully thought-out manoeuvre, Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid.