No clear victor in Spanish election as results defy predictions<\/strong><\/a>
Spain appears destined for painful political negotiations after Sunday\u2019s elections, when no single party won enough parliamentary seats to form a government. Prospects for coalition-building now remain uncertain.<\/p>\nWith over 99% of the vote counted, the center-right Partido Popular (PP) is set to come in first, winning 136 seats. The upstart far-right Vox party, a possible coalition partner to PP, is forecast to win 33 seats.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez\u2019s ruling center-left Socialist party meanwhile is on course to win 122 seats, with likely coalition partners Sumar at 31 seats.<\/p>\n
Calling Sunday\u2019s vote was a political gamble for Sanchez, after his party suffered major setbacks in regional and local elections in May. The PP that month made huge gains, amid a surge toward the right in European politics across the continent.<\/p>\n
Most polls predicted that PP would win the most votes on Sunday, but fall short of an absolute majority in Parliament, meaning it would likely have to form a coalition with the far-right Vox party.<\/p>\n
Such an arrangement would have courted controversy by ushering a far-right party enter government for the first time in decades. But Sunday\u2019s nailbiting vote count offered no easy path for a rightwing coalition to be formed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Has the Leftist penchant for \u201celection\u201d-rigging taken root in Spain now too? Actually, it\u2019s not as far-fetched an idea as it may seem at first blush, since as we know the Evil Left, not just here but all across Western Civ, has been working since at least the late 1960s from the same Marxist playbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Looks like another eagerly-anticipated \u201cRed wave\u201d has failed to roll ashore. No clear victor in Spanish election as results defy predictionsSpain appears destined for painful political negotiations after Sunday\u2019s elections, when no single party won enough parliamentary seats to form a government. Prospects for coalition-building…<\/p>\n
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