Spain: Right wins seats but falls short of absolute majority
- July 23, 2023
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No party or coalition will win an absolute majority in Spain’s early general election, according to preliminary results with more than 95 percent of the vote counted. The
No party or coalition will win an absolute majority in Spain’s early general election, according to preliminary results with more than 95 percent of the vote counted.
The conservative People’s Party (PP) was poised to defeat the ruling Socialists, but with no chance of forming a government.
According to preliminary counts released by the Ministry of the Interior, the NP was going to win 136 seats in the Congress of Deputies out of 350 seats, up 47 seats from the previous 2019 elections.
extreme right Vox remained at 33rd placestill being the third parliamentary force with a result 19 less than in 2019.
The hypothetical right-wing coalition (PP-Vox) is far from an absolute majority of 176 seats. Thus the possible union of the Right will remain.
The PP-Vox alliance is not gaining the majority needed to form a government. Source: MIA Simulator.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) will win about 122 seats, while its ally, the leftist party Sumar, will get 31 seats.
The results point to a split in parliament, although previous polls have given PP and Vox the opportunity to win a majority.
Prime Minister, socialist Pedro Sanchez, He postponed elections due later this year after the left failed in local elections in May.
The Spaniards could choose succession Sanchez of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), and their partners from the left Sumar coalition headed by the vice-president Yolanda Diaz.
However, the candidate from the right turned out to be the favorite in the polls. People’s Party (PP), Alberto Nunez Feijooalbeit without enough seats in parliament to form a government.
The PSOE alliance also did not achieve an absolute majority. Source: MIA Simulator.
Spain is a parliamentary monarchy, so absolute majority in Congress required (176 votes) be able to manage.
In this sense, PP may team up with far-right party VOXled Santiago Abascalto add seats. This was done in several autonomous communities such as Extremadura, Valencia and the Balearic Islands after local elections in May.
For many Spaniards, this is a defining moment in the political life of the country. If PP and VOX form an alliance with enough seats to govern, This will be the first time that the far right enters the government. ever since the Iberian country transitioned to democracy after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.
PP and VOX have promised to reverse or rather correct various reforms undertaken by the Sánchez government, among them Democratic Memory Law; euthanasia law; trans law; labor reform, among other things. Feihoo also promised that the Ministry of Equality would disappear.
(According to information from EFE, Reuters And Aristegui News)
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