Vox spain president video1/31/2024 But Sanchez reportedly told aides that a formula will be found for a government without repeating the elections. Spanish media reported Monday that Feijóo says he’ll talk to the Socialists about letting the conservatives govern. Shaping up as potential kingmakers for any coalition government are the nationalist parties in Catalonia and in the northern Basque region. Santiago Abascal, leader of the far-right Vox party, delivering a speech at his party's headquarters on July 23, 2023. Spanish media reported that the contacts have already begun, just hours after the voting concluded. In Spain, parliament is now due to convene in mid-August to select a new prime minister – a process which includes the parties discussing their preferences and abilities to govern with King Felipe VI, the head of state. That’s different than in some other European countries, where far-right parties have scored gains, now governing in Italy under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and entering the government in Finland. “Spain has contained inflation and now it has contained the ultra-nationalist Vox party,” Andres Villena, a professor at Madrid’s Complutense University, told CNN Monday. And even when combined with Vox – which lost 19 seats from its showing in the 2019 election – the duo would still be seven seats short of a majority. While some polls predicted Feijóo’s conservative party would get close to a parliamentary majority on its own, voters instead left him 40 seats short. Vox takes a hardline on immigration and had pledged to roll back protections for women and LGBTQ people.Īlberto Nuñez Feijoo, leader of the Popular Party, celebrates the results of Spain's general elections on July 24, 2023. Since then, the Spanish left had warned voters that this election could put a far-right party into government – with a PP-Vox coalition – for the first time in decades. Sanchez had called this snap vote after his ruling coalition of left-wing partners suffered major setbacks in May’s regional and local elections. The complex process of horse-trading and negotiations to reach a minimum number of 176 deputies must now begin. Feijóo’s PP won 136 representatives, followed by Sanchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) with 122, then Vox’s 33 and Sumar’s 31. No single party won enough parliamentary seats to form a government with a majority in Spain’s 350-seat legislature. Although Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez came in second place in the vote and his ally Yolanda Diaz finished fourth with her new Sumar leftist alliance, they both wore big grins when addressing their respective supporters celebrating the results on Sunday evening.īut the election winner, the conservative Popular Party (PP) leader Alberto Nuñez Feijóo appeared less jubilant speaking to his large crowd of faithful, while third-place finisher, Santiago Abascal of the far-right Vox party, looked downbeat when he took to the stage. The smiles on Spain’s election night told part of the story.
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