Sunday's Spanish elections pit 2 left-wing parties against 2 right-wing parties. Here is an overview of the leaders

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Sunday's Spanish elections will be a battle between two left-wing parties and two right-wing parties joining together to form potential coalitions. Here's a look at the four leaders of these parties.

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PEDRO SÁNCHEZ

Pedro Sánchez, Spain's prime minister since 2018, faces re-election with the latest polls and most polls against him.

The Socialist Party leader has led Spain through the COVID-19 pandemic with a successful vaccination program and faced a worsening inflation-linked economic downturn by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

But his reliance on fringe parties, including separatist forces in Catalonia and the Basque Country, to maintain his minority coalition and his passage of a slew of liberal laws, could cost him his job.

Sánchez, known for his dashing demeanor and progressive credentials that include having more women than men in his cabinet and a strong environmental policy record, strengthened Spain's status in Brussels. The 51-year-old is also fluent in English, a skill his predecessors lacked.

But snap elections called after the Socialists and their far-left coalition partners were defeated in local and regional elections in May could be an all-or-nothing gamble.

Sánchez has launched a series of interviews with Spanish media and held rallies across Spain, hoping he can pull off another upset and stay in power. His chances will depend on the mobilization of a demoralized left.

A former basketball player and professor of economics, Sánchez and his wife have two daughters.

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ALBERTO NÚÑEZ FEIJÓO

Invited to lead his right-wing People's Party to victory, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has enjoyed a meteoric rise since taking the reins of the party in April 2022 following an internal dispute that overthrew é his predecessor, Pablo Casado.

A former civil servant who won four consecutive regional elections in his native northwestern Galicia, a traditional stronghold of the Popular Party, Feijóo was initially presented as a moderate.

But with the sudden call of an election and the breakthrough of the far-right Vox party, he has shifted considerably to the right, promising to repeal many leftist government laws and being more aggressive in his campaign to overthrow socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

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