Spain's Socialist party pledged on Monday to act fast to form a government ...
MADRID - Spain’s Socialist party pledged on Monday to act fast to form a government after its leader and acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez gambled on a repeat election that on Sunday night resulted in no clear winner but a surge for the far right.
Asked whether a new vote might be called, Abalos said: “I totally rule it out. It would be an institutional failure.” The conservative People’s Party , which alternated in government with the Socialists for decades after Spain emerged from General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship in the 1970s, recovered from a disappointing result in April to take 88 seats.
In Spain, opposing parties can smooth the way for their rivals to form a government by abstaining in the second round of a parliamentary confirmation vote. FILE PHOTO: Spanish acting Prime Minister and Socialist Workers' Party leader Pedro Sanchez gestures as he speaks during a campaign closing rally ahead of general election, in Alcala de Henares, near Madrid, Spain November 8, 2019. REUTERS/Sergio Perez/File PhotoUnidas Podemos, which surged into Spanish politics in 2014 on a wave of indignation over a financial crisis, lost seven seats to take fourth place with 35 seats.
“No one has won,” Murado told Reuters. “The best success has been for the far-right Vox party, but this win does not give them any power... It’s not enough for the right-wing bloc to form a government.”
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