With their 153 lawmakers, the Socialists and Sumar will need the support of several regional formations such as the left-wing Catalan separatist ERC party or the pro-independence Basque party EH Bildu, seen as the heir of the now-defunct armed separatist group ETA.īut they will also have to negotiate the abstention of the hardline Catalan separatist party JxCat which has vowed not to help Sanchez remain in power without something in return. “There are many more who want Spain to keep advancing than those who want to go backwards,” he said. “The backwards-looking bloc that wanted to roll back all the progress we made over the past four years has failed,” said a clearly jubilant Sanchez who focused his campaign on the danger of a PP-Vox government. Sanchez’s Socialists came in second with 122, with its radical left Sumar ally securing 31 mandates, giving the left bloc just 153.Īddressing a crowd of euphoric activists shouting “No pasaran!” – the famous anti-fascist slogan of Spain’s 1936-1939 civil war meaning “They shall not pass!” – Sanchez was jubilant. With all the votes counted, Feijoo’s Popular Party won with 136 of the parliament’s 350 seats, while the far-right Vox, its potential ally, won 33, with the pair securing only 169, a far cry from the 176 needed for a governing majority. MADRID: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and his right-wing rival Alberto Nunez Feijoo will each begin negotiations Monday to try to head off a fresh vote after an inconclusive snap election resulted in a hung parliament.ĭefying polls that for months had written him off as defeated, the Socialist premier managed to curb the gains of the right-wing opposition.
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