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Live from Madrid, Monday July 24, journalist Valéry Lerouge looks back on the results of the early legislative elections in Spain. If the right came out on top, the Socialists resisted better than announced.
In the aftermath of the early legislative elections in Spain, which took place on Sunday July 23, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez could finally stay in power. The negotiations have started. “There will be weeks of discussions that will be laborious, complicated and long so that the right and the left, each on their side, try to form a majority”explains journalist Valéry Lerouge, live from Madrid (Spain), Monday, July 24.
A difficult coalition to form
“However, there was a winner, on the right. The Popular Party (PP) won, as the polls predicted, but with a less comfortable lead than expected: 136 seats out of 350″, continues the journalist. The PP “intended to ally with Vox, the far-right party. But with only 33 seats, the account is not there, even by adding them up. The reservoir is very thin for the right-wing bloc”, says Valéry Lerouge. The left hopes to take advantage of this by forming a very broad coalition, but the task promises to be just as complicated.