2023-07-23 21:55:00
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted yesterday at 23:55, Updated yesterday at 23:58
The outgoing Socialist Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, and the PP candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijoo. PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU / AFP
The People’s Party (PP) victory was much narrower than expected, which could allow Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to stay in power.
Given the clear winner of the legislative elections in Spain for months by all the polls, the right was only narrowly ahead of the Socialists of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Sunday evening, who, against all odds, retains a chance to stay in power thanks to the game of alliances, according to partial results.
After counting 99% of the votes, the Interior Ministry projects 136 seats for the People’s Party (PP) and 122 for the Socialists, while the Vox party, credited with 33 seats, is in third position, just ahead of Sumar, a radical left party allied with Sánchez, which would have 31 seats. It takes 176 votes to obtain an absolute majority.
In power for five years, Sánchez is in a better position than his rival and can hope to stay in power, as he has a chance of obtaining the support of the Basque and Catalan parties for whom Vox is a bogeyman. If no viable majority emerges, new elections could take place, in a country that has had four general elections between 2015 and 2019.
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Right-wing polls
However, these were the most important elections since the advent of democracy in this country, the polls of the last few days having all predicted a victory for the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijoo. With the possible coming to power of an alliance between the traditional right and the ultra-nationalist, ultra-conservative and Europhobic party Vox, which rejects the existence of gender violence, criticizes the “climate fanaticismand is openly anti-LGBT and anti-abortion. Such a scenario would have marked the return to power of the far right in Spain for the first time since the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1975, almost half a century ago.
Alberto Núñez Feijoo said after voting that he hoped Spain “begins a new era“. This election isvery important (…) for the world and for Europe“, had estimated, for his part Pedro Sánchez.
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