Poll suggests Spain faces minority government after election
- 5 years ago
Spain held its third general election in four years on Sunday.
For more on this and other new around the world, let's turn to Hong Yoo.
So Yoo, we hear the results are starting to filter through...
Well, Connyoung, Sunday's election looks like a storming victory for the socialist PSOE party with 122 seats out of a total 350, with 90 percent of the votes counted.
The mainstream conservative People's Party had a terrible night with their seats dwindling from 137 to 65.
The center-right Ciudadanos party has 55 seats, left-wing Unidas Podemos 35 seats, and the new far-right party Vox won 23 seats.
This is the first time that socialists have had such success in a Spain election since 1982.
But the PSOE party will still need the left-wing Podemos and Catalan pro-independence parties' support to form a government as the two parties are short of the necessary 176 for a majority.
The PSOE's leader Pedro Sanchez called Spain's third election in four years after his government's fiscal plan was refused by Parliament.
The highly polarized campaign was dominated by issues including national identity, gender equality and the future of Catalonia.
For more on this and other new around the world, let's turn to Hong Yoo.
So Yoo, we hear the results are starting to filter through...
Well, Connyoung, Sunday's election looks like a storming victory for the socialist PSOE party with 122 seats out of a total 350, with 90 percent of the votes counted.
The mainstream conservative People's Party had a terrible night with their seats dwindling from 137 to 65.
The center-right Ciudadanos party has 55 seats, left-wing Unidas Podemos 35 seats, and the new far-right party Vox won 23 seats.
This is the first time that socialists have had such success in a Spain election since 1982.
But the PSOE party will still need the left-wing Podemos and Catalan pro-independence parties' support to form a government as the two parties are short of the necessary 176 for a majority.
The PSOE's leader Pedro Sanchez called Spain's third election in four years after his government's fiscal plan was refused by Parliament.
The highly polarized campaign was dominated by issues including national identity, gender equality and the future of Catalonia.