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12TH - 18TH NOVEMBER 2019 - EDITION 813
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Spanish election results in hung parliament The Socialists of acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who had gambled that a repeat parliamentary election would strengthen his hand, finished first in Sunday’s Spanish General Election, but with fewer seats than in the previous ballot in April and further away from a
majority. Spain’s far-right Vox party more than doubled its number of lawmakers in the country’s fourth national election in four years, which delivered a deeply fragmented parliament, setting the stage for very difficult government negotiations. “One way or another we’ll form a
progressive government and unblock the political stalemate ... We call upon all the political parties, except for those that work against coexistence and foster hatred,” Sanchez said. The election outcome has left a legislative stalemate with neither the left nor right having a majority. The outcome will require party leaders to be creative,
negotiate seriously this time and, for some, swallow their pride, after higher abstention rates on Sunday showed that voters are tired of repeatedly being called to the ballot box – and certainly don’t want a third election. The conservative People’s Party (PP) was second and Vox third, mostly at the expense of the centre-right Ciudadanos, which slumped from 57 seats to just 10. Vox won 52 seats, up from the 24 seats Continued on page 3
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