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("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Spanish lawyer Gonzalez Durantez launches centrist party for November election
MADRID, Oct 10 -
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Durantez → launch → election
Lawyer Miriam Gonzalez Durantez launched a new Spanish political party on Saturday to run in an early general election on November 29, promising to rise above a growing ideological divide, recover democratic values and depoliticise institutions.
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Durantez → launch → institutions
Gonzalez Durantez, who is married to former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and specialises in international and EU trade law, said the party, called Democracy21, will run in the election in Madrid and Barcelona.
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party → specialise → Madrid
The party enters a volatile political landscape after Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called the snap election on Monday following parliament's rejection of measures to address a mounting housing crisis.
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Sanchez → enter → crisis
Opinion polls point to the conservative People's Party (PP) and far-right Vox likely winning a combined parliamentary majority.
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Party → point → majority
Referring to the left-right political divide in Spain exemplified by the deep rivalry between the Socialists and the PP, she criticised "two rigid blocs with nothing to foster consensus".
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she → refer → consensus
Gonzalez Durantez called on Spaniards to "set aside our ideological differences, to stand united, and to work together to safeguard democracy and modernise the country."
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Durantez → call → country
The crisis has triggered continuing mass protests over home shortages and surging rents, stoked by the eviction of an 87-year-old woman, whose death on Tuesday further angered protesters.
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death → trigger → protesters
Gonzalez Durantez blamed both the ruling coalition and the opposition, which controls most of Spain's regions, for the housing crisis, calling their politicians "a cost, a burden for the country" who expressly failed to develop and urbanise the land.
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who → blame → land
They haven't used the permits to build housing; instead, they've used them to line the coffers of their city councils.
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they → use → councils
They've imposed so many regulations, many of them absurd, that they've doubled the price per square meter of construction and have made it almost impossible for us to build affordable housing," she told supporters.
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she → impose → supporters
Central government can set housing legislation and devise nationwide plans for incentives and subsidies, but their implementation, and wider urban planning, is largely devolved to regional governments and municipalities.
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implementation → set → governments
She said she would identify a problem and not play politics with it.
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she → say → it
"I won’t use it to pit one group against another, no, I’ll simply fix it."
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I → use → it