UPDATE: Spain’s Socialists party led by PM Pedro Sanchez wins 29 percent of the vote, capturing 123 seats in the 350-seat parliament
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of the Socialist Workers' Party speaks to supporter while celebrating the result in Spain's general election in Madrid, Spain, April 28, 2019.
A significant development was the rise of the ultra-nationalist Vox party, which garnered just over 10 percent of the vote in a country that has had no far-right party to speak of since the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. He could also try to cosy up to centre-right Ciudadanos, which won 57 seats. Together, they would form an absolute majority but voters from both parties would likely frown on such a move.
Founded by Santiago Abascal, a disgruntled former PP member, it will now take 24 seats in the national parliament. "I thought Vox would get way more votes, with this result Vox won’t have any weight in parliament as no one supports them. We needed more seats," said Maria Bonilla Ortega, a 22-year-old philosophy student in central Madrid, a Spanish flag draped around her shoulders.
The region in northeastern Spain was the scene of a secession attempt in 2017 that sparked the country’s biggest political crisis in decades and caused major concern in Europe. Sanchez was forced to call Sunday’s elections after Catalan pro-independence lawmakers in the national parliament, angered at the trial of their leaders in Madrid, refused to give him the support he needed for his 2019 budget.
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