Results come in for one of Spain's most hotly-contested elections in decades, showing Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez set to regain power
MADRID - Spain’s ruling Socialists were weighing options for forming a new government on Monday after they won a national election but fell short of a majority in a deeply fragmented parliament that could spell prolonged political uncertainty.
If he does seek a coalition partner, he could opt for a complex alliance with fellow leftists Podemos that would likely require support from at least one Catalan separatist lawmaker, or he could risk upsetting his grassroots supporters by joining forces across the political divide with center-right Ciudadanos.
Pablo Simon, political science professor at Madrid’s Carlos III University, said he expected no deal on a government before next month’s European Parliament elections.Vox, the first party of that political hue to sit in parliament in significant numbers since late dictator Francisco Franco died in 1975, splintered the right-wing vote to leave the mainstream conservative People’s Party languishing on just 66 seats, its worst result since the early 1980s.
While Sanchez has ruled out any negotiations on Catalan independence, any deal with the separatists would rake over the coals of the most divisive topic of an often tense election campaign that was dominated by issues of national identity.
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