Overview
- The official campaign began overnight Thursday to Friday with nationwide midnight 'pegada' poster events and kickoff rallies that put party machinery into a two‑week sprint before voting on November 29.
- Renewed arrivals on the Canary route—reported at 7,645 in the first 11 days of November—have elevated migration as a vote‑deciding issue and intensified debate over the government’s extraordinary regularization of roughly 1.17 million applicants.
- Two recent railway crashes that together have been reported to have killed about 115 people prompted Transport Minister Óscar Puente to resign and have sharpened questions about safety oversight and infrastructure investment.
- Main parties are offering starkly different remedies: the PSOE defends regular channels and integration, the PP proposes annual admission caps and a reformed foreigners law, and Vox calls for immediate expulsions and removal of benefits for irregular entries.
- The campaign will test turnout and coalition math as parties use youth events, influencer interviews and high‑profile visits—including a planned Lula appearance—to shift undecided voters while public services and housing face added pressure from migration and demographic change.