![]() ![]() Vox leader Santiago Abascal said that the Socialists’ results were “bad news for Spaniards.” Vox, which had hoped to force its way into power much as other far-right parties have done in other European countries, lost 19 seats from four years earlier. Countries such as Germany and France are concerned about what such a shift would portend for EU immigration and climate policies. The Socialists and other leftist parties seem to have motivated their voters by drumming up fear of having the anti-feminist, ultra-nationalist Vox in power as a junior member of a possible coalition with the PP.Ī PP-Vox government would have meant another EU member has moved firmly to the right, a trend seen recently in Sweden, Finland and Italy. “We have won the elections, it corresponds to us to form a government like it has always happened in Spanish democracy,” he said, addressing a crowd aflutter with Spanish flags.įeijóo focused the PP’s campaign not on what he would do as prime minister, but rather as an attack on what he called the untrustworthiness of Sánchez. ![]() The 51-year-old Sánchez had to mount a mutiny among rank-and-file Socialists to return to heading his party before he won Spain’s only no-confidence vote to oust his PP predecessor in 2018.īut Feijóo would probably trade spots with his rival if he could.įeijóo claimed his right to form a government as the most voted party in the election, adding he was “proud” of what his party’s first national election victory since 2016. ![]() Instead, he stunned his rivals by moving up the vote in hopes of gaining a bigger boost from his supporters.Įven if this goes to a new ballot, Sánchez can add this election night to yet another comeback in his career that has been built around beating the odds. The backward-looking bloc that wanted to undo all that we have done has failed,” Sánchez told a jubilant crowd gathered at Socialists’ headquarters in Madrid.Īfter his party took a beating in regional and local elections in May, Sánchez could have waited until December to face a national vote. “Spain and all the citizens who have voted have made themselves clear. But Sánchez can likely call on the 31 seats of its junior coalition partner Sumar (Joining Forces) and several smaller forces to at least total more than the sum of the right-wing parties. The Socialists are set to take 122 seats, two more than they had. Even with the 33 seats that the far-right Vox is poised to get and the one seat going to an allied party, the PP would still be seven seats from the absolute majority. With 98% of votes counted, PP is on track for 136 seats. “We won’t make Pedro Sánchez PM in exchange for nothing,” Míriam Nogueras of Junts said after the results left her party holding the keys to power. ![]()
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