Sánchez seeks to use Trump defeat and Lula win to block far-right in Spain

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is campaigning to turn Donald Trump's defeat in the United States and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's victory in Brazil into political momentum to stop the far right in Spain. Speaking at a PSOE event in Tarragona on Saturday, he called for a broad parliamentary majority to defeat the Popular Party and Vox in the November 29 general election and extend his government for four more years.

Sánchez told supporters that the far-right wave would crumble just as it has in the United States and Brazil. He accused PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Vox leader Santiago Abascal of proposing a journey to the past, urging mass voting to send them home.

“Spain needs progress and the best recipe against involution is mobilization. If we vote en masse, we send Feijóo and Abascal home.”

The prime minister framed the election as a choice between Spanish sovereignty and foreign influence, telling voters that Spain is governed from Spain, not from Washington, Argentina, or Israel. He linked the Spanish right to international figures including Donald Trump, Javier Milei, and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Sánchez also positioned himself as a beacon against the war in Iran and what he called the genocide in Gaza. He rejected the possibility of Spain spending 5 percent of its gross domestic product on defense, recalling his differences with Trump over military spending.

At a packed precampaign event in Bilbao on Sunday under the slogan The Strength of the Country, Sánchez pledged to raise the interprofessional minimum wage every year and to constitutionally protect pension revaluation. He said Spain has come far in social and economic progress and can go much further over the next four years with a new progressive government.

He argued that the Spanish and international right attack Spain because it proves that hope is more efficient for social prosperity than the hatred they promote. Sánchez said the PSOE would do on November 29 what happened in the United States, where people mobilized after it became the epicenter of the international far right, and pledged to contest both the Congress and the Senate.