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While the evening of legislative elections in Spain sees the populists ahead of the socialists, no one has an absolute majority. Talks will now take place between the leading parties and the smaller ones, to conquer additional seats.
In Spain, where the legislative elections are currently taking place, right and left are rather neck and neck. “It’s an election night with enormous suspense. The curves have crossed a bit over the course of the evening. (…) The results will be much more subtle than expected to analyze. At present, with 93% of the ballots counted, it is the People’s Party, the conservative right, which wins with 136 seats, against 122 for the Socialists”explains journalist Valéry Lerouge, live from Madrid, Sunday evening July 23.
Negotiation time
“What is certain is that no party has an absolute majority. We imagined that the People’s Party would ally itself with Vox, the far-right party, and that they would together obtain an absolute majority, but Vox is doing less well than expected. We are heading towards a long period of negotiations between the parties. The right and the far right will try to grab one or two seats from localist, independentist parties, here or there. don’t have to do the same”he concludes.