The elections of this July 23 They have confirmed the predictions of victory of the Popular Party (PP), but the right-wing bloc remains below the absolute majority necessary to form a Government.
With 136 seats, the PP was the party with the most votes, but the results were far from the overwhelming victory that many polls predicted.
The Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), with 122 seats, is resisting against all odds, and at this moment all options are up in the air as to who will achieve a negotiated majority to govern in the Spanish parliamentary system.
For its part, 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 are distributed mainly between Catalan, Basque and Galician nationalist parties (Esquerra Republicana 7 seats; JuntsxCat, 7; EH Bildu, 7; Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco, 5; or the Galician Nationalist Bloc, 1).
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of the PP, warned after learning the results that the leader of the most voted party has always formed a government in the last decades of democracy and assured that he will begin negotiations to reach La Moncloa.
“We will work from tomorrow so that Spain does not become blocked,” said the Galician politician, who is facing less favorable results than he expected.
For his part, the leader of the PSOE and current president of the government, Pedro Sanchez, celebrated that the involutionist wave in terms of rights that implied, in his opinion, a government formed by the PP and VOX had been stopped.
“We have obtained more votes, more seats and more percentage than four years ago. “The involutionist bloc of the PP with Vox has been defeated,” Sanchez said., who were widely considered dead after this election day.
“Those who proposed machismo, the setback in rights and freedoms have failed today and the PP Vox bloc has been defeated,” he added.
The narrow victory of the right leaves a very bad taste in the mouth of the conservative bloc that he hoped to govern with the absolute majority and opens the possibility of Sánchez continuing in La Moncloa.
The newspaper The country details that the current left bloc would have 172 seats, and would need at least the abstention of Junts to make Pedro Sánchez president, while the right only has 171 seats as long as the PNV remains with the PSOE.
The next few days will be vital for the configuration of the next Spanish government in a scenario of uncertainty but from which the current president of the government emerges stronger.
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