Spain - which held four general elections between 2015 and 2019 - could find itself once again in deadlock and forced to call a new vote.
SPANISH PRIME MINISTER Pedro Sanchez and his right-wing rival Alberto Nunez Feijoo will each begin negotiations today to try to head off a fresh vote after an inconclusive snap election resulted in a hung parliament.
Sanchez’s Socialists came in second with 122, with its radical left Sumar ally securing 31 mandates, giving the left bloc just 153. But they will also have to negotiate the abstention of the hardline Catalan separatist party JxCat which has vowed not to help Sanchez remain in power without something in return.
Sanchez, 51, called the snap polls in late May after his Socialist party and its far-left junior coalition partners suffered a drubbing in local and regional elections in which the right surged.
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