The opposition right-wing People’s Party (PP) led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo won the parliamentary elections in Spain according to the first media forecasts. But she will not achieve a majority in the parliament by herself, according to some forecasts, she could win it together with the far-right Vox party. According to these sources, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s governing socialists have no chance of a majority in parliament, not even with the left-wing Sumar formation.
According to the forecast of the Sigma Dos agency, the People’s Party would occupy 145 to 150 seats in the 350-member lower house of parliament, and Vox 24 to 27, so together they could have a majority. The same poll gives Sánchez’s Socialists 113 to 118 seats and their allies Sumar 28 to 31, short of a majority. The second forecast, by the agency GAD3 for Mediaset, states that the PP received votes for 150 seats and Vox for 31.
Spaniards voted on Sunday in parliamentary elections that are likely to end the five-year rule of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. According to election polls, the conservative People’s Party (PP) led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo was the favorite, but if he wins, he will not be able to form a government without the support of another party.
“The choice is essentially between another left-wing coalition and a partnership of the right and the extreme right,” wrote the AP agency.
The polling stations closed at 8 p.m., so these are the first estimates, the results may still change.
To win a majority, the People’s Party needed to win more than half of the 350 seats in the lower house of parliament. He will probably have to come to an agreement with the far-right party Vox, which according to polls will fight for third place with the left-wing platform Sumar, which was founded last year by the second vice-president of the Sánchez government and the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Yolanda Díaz.
Vox was founded in 2014 by Santiago Abascal. It is a far-right party that rejects same-sex marriage and the adoption of children by these couples, euthanasia, the rights of transgender people and any gender ideology. At the same time, he opposes the right to abortion and denies climate change.
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A coalition government with Vox would return Spain’s far-right to government seats for the first time since the death of dictator Francisco Franco. This is not wild speculation. PP and Vox have agreed on a joint government in approximately 140 cities since the May elections.
Senator and Populist leader Albert Núñez Feijóo has never ruled out a partnership at the national level, but he seems less than enthusiastic about a potential partnership with the far-right party. In one of the last debates, he said that if he did not need their votes, Vox would not be in the government.
But the Vox party is becoming an increasingly likely path, especially after the original opponent of the ultra-right government, Maria Guardiola, chairwoman of the PP in the western region of Extremadura, accepted her into her regional government.
Parliamentary elections in Spain are held for the first time in July, in the middle of summer, when many Spaniards are on vacation. This is also why the Spanish post office registered a record 2.47 million correspondence votes.
The elections were originally supposed to take place at the end of the year, most likely in December, but Prime Minister Sánchez surprisingly hastened them after the defeat of his party in regional and local elections in May, in which the People’s Party scored points, as ČTK writes. It is now being speculated whether, after Italy or Finland, Spain will become the next country in the European Union to switch to a right-wing government.
2023-07-23 18:26:40
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