Rajoy convoke this Monday legislative elections for December 20

USPA NEWS - The Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, will convoke on Monday for parliamentary elections on December 20. At an extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet's decree dissolving Parliament and call for elections will be approved.

In the afternoon, the Prime Minister will report to King Philip IV of Spain to the dissolution of Parliament and the calling of elections, which will be sanctioned by the monarch. After final approval, last Wednesday, of the State budget for 2016 on Monday the elections will be convened in order that meeting the deadlines that mark the current Electoral Law, they can be held on December 20.

Rajoy does not want elections during and after Christmas, but the parliamentary procedure of the State budget has forced convene for two days before the start of the holidays, which in Spain takes place on December 22 with the celebration the special Christmas lottery. Thus, the party that wins the election can begin 2016 with government project underway.

The electoral campaign will start on December 4 and will last fourteen days. On the 19th of that month it will be a day of reflection before voting day 20. But the Spanish political parties take weeks warming up in the pre-season. This weekend, the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, visited Alicante, on the Mediterranean coast, and promised that if the Popular Party (PP) won the elections, the next legislature will be "the best" of the Spanish democratic history because it will maintain current policies and that will result in "the best years" for Spain. Against that, Rajoy said that the Socialist Party intends to "return to the past".

Also general secretary of the Socialist Party, Pedro Sanchez, took the weekend to make pre-campaign. In Leon, where he visited the coalfields, the leader of the opposition in Parliament said the legislature Rajoy can be summarized in three words: "unemployment, inequality and corruption." Sanchez asked to vote for the socialists, who proposes a "change everything a separated right". The Socialist Party will campaign in defense of "public employment rights, education and scholarships, and political and decency."