Spanish PM to call snap election for April 28: El Pais

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Spain's PM Sanchez holds a news conference in Madrid
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez holds a news conference after an extraordinary cabinet meeting in Madrid, Spain, February 15, 2019. REUTERS/Juan Medina

February 15, 2019

MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will on Friday call a snap national election for April 28, after losing a key budget vote, the daily El Pais said.

Sanchez took office in June last year after the previous conservative government was ousted in a no-confidence vote.

(Reporting by Belen Carreno, Paul Day and Jose Elias Rodriguez; Editing by Mark Heinrich; Editing by Ingrid Melander)

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