Governance is further complicated in Spain after the Popular Party (PP) won the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) the seat for Madrid corresponding to the vote of Spaniards residing abroad.
The popular thus achieve 16 deputies in Madrid for 10 the Socialists and double the number of votes cast from abroad in the Madrid constituency, reported The country.
In this way, although for Núñez Feijóo and the right-wing bloc victory continues to be insufficient to govern, Pedro Sánchez, leader of the socialists and current president of the government, would now have to negotiate the vote in favor of the Catalan nationalist party Junts, and not just his abstention.
Feijóo reaches 171 supports (137 from the PP, 33 from Vox and 1 from Unión del Pueblo Navarro), and the PSOE remains at 121. The absolute majority is set at 176 seats.
Even so, PSOE sources told El País that “the possible change of a seat in Madrid due to the recount of the vote abroad does not change the situation to form majorities.”
“Together they will have to decide whether to join forces with the PP and Vox, and open the door to a right-wing government with the ultra-right, or join the rest of the political forces to avoid it exactly the same as yesterday,” the source specifies.
The elections of last July 23 They confirmed the PP’s forecasts of victory, but the right-wing block fell short of the absolute majority necessary to form a government.
With 136 seats, not counting the vote from abroad, the PP was the party with the most votes, but the results were far from the overwhelming victory that many polls predicted.
The PSOE, with 122 seats, held out against all odds, and is more likely to achieve a negotiated majority to govern in Spain’s parliamentary system.
SUMAR, the left-wing organization led by Yolanda Díaz, reached 31 seats, only two less than VOX, the far-right political force led by Santiago Abascal.
The other 28 seats were distributed mainly between Catalan, Basque and Galician nationalist parties (Esquerra Republicana 7 seats; JuntsxCat, 7; EH Bildu, 7; Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Basque Nationalist Party, 5; or the Galician Nationalist Bloc, 1).
As the days go by, and despite the pressure from the PP for a pact between the most voted parties, it is becoming increasingly clear that Pedro Sánchez has all the ballots to form a government again.
