The conservative PP won the legislative elections this Sunday in Spain, but without achieving an absolute majority with Vox, according to the provisional results released by the Government.
The PP, with 136 deputies, and VOX, with 33, only managed to add 169 deputies to parliament, leaving seven of the 176 necessary for an absolute majority.
The PSOE, with 122 deputies, and Somar, with 31, total 153 seats in parliament and may have more deputies than the right with the allies of the last legislature.
The polls broadcast by the Spanish televisions TVE and Telecinco at the end of the elections pointed to a victory for the PP with a possible absolute majority with VOX.
According to the provisional results when more than 98% of the votes were counted, the PP had 32.96%, compared to 31.73% of the PSOE socialists, led by Pedro Sánchez, currently in power.
Regarding the 2019 elections, the PP elected 47 more deputies and the PSOE two more.
VOX remained the third political force, but lost 19 deputies compared to 2019, remaining with 33, corresponding to 12.39% of the votes.
Somar, which is a member of far-left parties that were part of United We Can, elected 31 deputies with 12.30% of the votes counted.
Among the political formations of the autonomous regions, the Esquerda Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) suffered a setback by going from 13 to 7 deputies, Together for Catalonia lost one and was left with six, and in the Basque Country EH-Bildu surpassed the Basque Nationalist Party for the first time, with six deputies against five.
The Galician Nationalist Bloc kept its only seat, the Canary Islands Coalition won one, as did the Unión del Pueblo Navarro, so the new chamber will be made up of eleven different parties.
The participation rate was 70.32%, corresponding to more than 23.9 million votes, reaching 29.67% abstention.
In 2019 abstention had been 33.76%.
These are the 16th general elections in Spain since the end of the dictatorship, in 1977, and 37,469,142 voters were called to vote, to elect 350 deputies and 208 senators.
The elections were scheduled for December, at the end of the legislature, but Sánchez brought them forward after the defeat of the left in the municipal and regional elections on May 28.
Source: TSF
