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PP and Vox maintain absolute majority after electoral advance

The Feijóo and Abascal parties repoint with the pre-campaign launched - 124; PSOE is the one that wins the most, 7 tenths, but the forces fall to its left, according to a 'flash' survey between Wednesday and Thursday - 124; A Wide Front with Can included would improve its results separately and reach up to 19 seats

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Spain mourns Maricarmen Abascal, whose eviction sparked housing protests

Protests and anger have grown across Spain after the death of an 87-year-old woman in the wake of her eviction from her home. Maricarmen Abascal was thrown out of her home of seven decades in what became the "cause celebre" of Spain's housing crisis. FRANCE 24's Sarah Morris reports from Madrid.

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Anger mounts in Spain as woman whose eviction ignited housing protests dies

Maricarmen ​Abascal, the 87-year-old Spanish woman whose dramatic eviction last month sparked mass housing protests that led to an early election, has died, the Madrid tenants' union said on Wednesday, as thousands demonstrated over her death. France 24's correspondent in Madrid Sarah Morris has the details.

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Maricarren Abascal died, an evicted woman who became a symbol of the struggle for housing

Maricarren Abascal, the 87-year-old retired woman whose eviction in Madrid has made her a symbol of the recent mass protests over the housing crisis in Spain, died on Wednesday, October 7, as confirmed by the Inquillinas Union. Without wishing to do so, women had become the most recent face in the struggle for greater protection of tenants and for actions against property speculation.

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Evicted pensioner who sparked Spain housing protests dies: tenant union

Maricarmen ​Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked housing ​protests in Spain, has died, Madrid's tenants' union said on Wednesday. Abascal's eviction sparked a series of ​protests ‌across Spain in the past couple ⁠of weeks, including activists camping on one of Madrid's main ‌squares, and calls for tackling a ⁠mounting housing crisis. FRANCE 24's Sarah Morris reports from Madrid.

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Maricarren Abascal, the retired woman whose eviction ignited protests for housing in Spain

The Inquillin Union confirmed the death of the 87-year-old woman, who had been hospitalized since her eviction on 23 September. His expulsion from the apartment he had lived in for over seven decades caused a wave of protests and pressure on the leadership to implement measures against the housing crisis. "We will continue to fight, as you always wanted," the organization said.

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