马德里10月7日电马德里租户工会于周三表示，87岁的玛丽卡门·阿巴斯卡尔已去世，她的遭遇曾在西班牙引发了一场轰轰烈烈的住房抗议活动。
MADRID, Oct 7 - Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked housing protests in Spain, has died, Madrid's tenants' union said on Wednesday.
在过去几周里，阿巴斯卡尔遭驱逐的事件在西班牙各地引发了一系列抗议，包括激进人士在马德里主要广场之一露营，以及各界要求解决日益严重的住房危机的呼声。
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.
旨在遏制驱逐行动和限制租金压力的法令上周遭议会否决，加之这些抗议活动，促使首相佩德罗·桑切斯宣布将大选提前至11月29日举行。
Those protests, along with parliament's rejection last week of decrees aimed at curbing evictions and limiting rent pressures, prompted Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to call an early election for November 29.
桑切斯正试图将政治叙事的焦点从政府对西班牙北非飞地休达移民危机的处理、以及其社会党和家人涉及的一系列腐败案，转移到住房危机上来。在住房问题上，他可以借势民众对租金上涨日益增长的不满情绪。
Sanchez is seeking to shift the political narrative from his government's handling of a migrant crisis in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta and a series of corruption cases involving his Socialist Party and his family to the housing crisis, an area in which he can harness growing resentment about rising rents.
西班牙领土政策大臣安赫尔·维克托·托雷斯对这一消息表示痛惜，称玛丽卡门已成为许多家庭、老年人和年轻人苦于无法拥有或保住自己住房的象征。
Angel Victor Torres, Spain's territorial policy minister, lamented the news, saying Maricarmen had become a symbol of what was happening to many families, elderly and young people struggling to obtain their own homes or stay in them.