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The polls were wrong. The right came out on top in the legislative elections in Spain, but it will not be able to achieve a majority, even by aggregating with the extreme right. The left could therefore remain in power.
Sunday, July 23, it’s a surprise in Spain. The tidal wave expected by the right in the legislative elections did not take place, contrary to what the polls announced. She finished in the lead, but did not obtain an absolute majority. The left is resisting well and could stay in power. Journalist Valéry Lerouge, live from Madrid (Spain), takes stock of the political situation on the other side of the Pyrenees.
A hard-to-find majority
“The favourite, the right-wing popular party which won the election yesterday, but with a less comfortable lead than expected, 138 seats out of the 350 in the hemicycle. It intended to rely on the far-right Vox party. But adding the two, the account is not there”, reports the journalist. It suits Pedro Sanchez, the socialist. This last “intends to stay in power thanks to that. He will have to aggregate all the other parties to make a very broad coalition“, concludes the journalist.