With 91% of the votes counted in Spain, the ruling Socialists are leading, but will need support from smaller parties to form a government. The far-right Vox party more than doubled its seats in Parliament.
Right-wing populist and anti-migrant leaders across Europe are celebrating the strong results of the upstart far-right Vox party in the Spanish election.
Vox, which only entered Spain’s parliament in April, more than doubled its support in Sunday’s national election to become Spain’s third-biggest party.Preliminary results with 91% of the votes counted show Spanish Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez winning Sunday’s general election but the ballot won’t immediately clear up the political deadlock.United We Can, the anti-austerity party whose leader on Sunday opened the door to backing a Socialist government, would get 35 seats.
The far-right Vox party is poised to become the country’s third political force, more than doubling its presence in the parliament’s lower house, from 24 to 53 deputies, only six months after its debut. The conservative Popular Party, leader of the opposition, is poised to recover from the 66 seats won in April, a historical low, to get 83 lawmakers from Sunday’s vote. The far-right Vox would nearly double its current presence in the Congress of Deputies, from 24 to 36 lawmakers.Polls have closed in continental Spain in the country’s national election, where left-wing and right-wing parties are fiercely competing to see who can form the next coalition government.
As of 6 p.m., 56.86% of the country’s 37 million eligible voters had cast their ballots, down from 60.74% at the same time in the April 28 election. Polls predict the party could jump from 5th place to become Spain’s third-ranking party, after the ruling Socialists and the center-right Popular Party, the group from which Vox’s founders stem.
Party leaders have urged voters to come out as polls suggest that up to 35% of Spain’s 37-million strong electorate on Sunday could skip the country’s fourth ballot in as many years. “We are going to offer a helping hand to the Socialist party. We think that combining the courage of United We Can and the experience of the Socialist party we can convert our country into a reference point for social policies,” Iglesias said Sunday.Spain’s incumbent Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is one of the first party leaders to cast his vote as the country goes to the polls for the fourth time in as many years.
The four main parties contending centered their campaigns chiefly on ways to deal with Catalonia’s independence push and the feared surge of the far-right party Vox .
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