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With the vote count about to close, with 95 percent of the electoral vote, the right-wing bloc achieved a pyrrhic victory, with the Popular Party (PP) as the most voted and 136 deputies and with Vox consolidated as the third force, with 33 seats. However, with these results, the right will not be able to govern, as it falls far short of the 176 deputies with an absolute majority.
This means that the current president of the government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, has many options to opt for re-election, since with his 122 deputies plus Sumar’s 31 they would have to agree to investiture with up to four other parliamentary forces: Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), which has seven seats, EH-Bildu, which won six, the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), with five, the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), with one, with which it would already add 172.
So, in addition to these alliances, they would have to agree with the Catalan nationalist formation Junts per Catalunya (JxCat), which has seven deputies, but for this they would have to negotiate with the leadership of this force, especially with the former Catalan president. Carlos Puigdemont, who has been in Brussels since 2017 after the judicial persecution he suffered after the failed unilateral declaration of independence.
With this scenario, neither can a repetition of the elections be ruled out given the impossibility of the blocks to form a stable government with an absolute majority, although the most plausible scenario is the re-election of the current government coalition. It will be decided in the coming weeks. end of advance
With 60% of votes, a tie between the right and left had been declared in Spain
With 60 percent of the votes counted, in what are already official data, a technical tie between the blocks of the right and the left is confirmed, although the current government coalition of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) and Sumar would have a better chance of reaching an absolute majority thanks to its parliamentary partners from the Basque, Catalan and Galician independence movement.
The specific data, with 60 percent scrutinized, is that the PP is the first parliamentary force, with 131 deputies, closely followed by the PSOE, which would have 128, while Vox, with 33, would establish itself as the third force. And Sumar, 30. These data, if confirmed at the end of the scrutiny, would guarantee the re-election of the current president, Pedro Sánchez, who would emerge as the great winner of election day despite his second place.
By Armando G. Tejeda
