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It once again narrowly beat the Catalan socialists into second place in the region.The far-left, pro-independence Catalan Popular Unity Candidacy party picked up its first two seats in the national parliament.Almost all votes are now counted in Spain’s second election this year, and the Socialist prime minister Pedro Sánchez has failed to break the parliamentary deadlock that was stopping him forming a new government. Results of such polls are displayed in this article.

Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. It and Citizens are responsible for the level of support the far right has received. All rights reserved. Spain stalemate shows inconclusive elections are the new normal Published: 11 Nov 2019 Spain’s new coalition must face up to the Catalan crisis and the rise of the far right

They haven’t shown themselves able to stand up to radicalisation. However, she said the PP and Citizens’ decision to work with Vox to take power in some Spanish regions over the past year had complicated matters.“We’ll try to explore situation that will lead to a stable government,” she said. The party’s leader, Albert Rivera, resigned on Monday.Frustration and apathy appear to have affected turnout, with participation dropping from 75.5% in April to 69.9%.On Monday morning the acting deputy prime minister, Carmen Calvo, said the PSOE was preparing to announce its proposals to break the deadlock. The election was held as provided under article 99.5 of the For the Congress of Deputies, 348 seats were elected using the The term of each chamber of the Cortes Generales—the Congress and the Senate—expired four years from the date of their previous election, unless they were dissolved earlier. “We have led a cultural and political change, because we have opened up all the forbidden debates and told the left that the story isn’t over yet and that they don’t have any moral superiority,” he said.He was swiftly congratulated by far-right European politicians including France’s Marine Le Pen, Italy’s Matteo Salvini and the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders.Pablo Iglesias, the leader of Unidas Podemos, who has offered to help Sánchez back into office, said the repeat election had served “to reinforce the right and to give us one of the most powerful extreme right in Europe”.Rivera, once touted as the poster boy of centrist Spanish politics, had hinted on Sunday night that he might step down following his party’s pitiful results. Immediately after the election, the PSOE ruled out a On 23 November the PSOE and the PSC held membership votes on the pre-agreement with Unidas Podemos; this was approved by 94.7% and 93.3% of the participants.On 27 November, UP held a membership vote on the pre-agreement with the Socialist party, which was approved by 96.8% of the participants.On 7 January 2020, Pedro Sánchez was confirmed as prime minister by the Congress of Deputies.For results by autonomous community/constituency, see 3 seats were vacant, pending regional appointments as a result of the Denotes a main invitee not attending the event, sending a surrogate in their place. The previous election was held in April.After the meetings, Meritxell Batet, the speaker of Congress, met King Felipe for further discussions.Acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez said he had failed to secure the necessary support in parliament to form a government.Many of the country’s party leaders blamed the caretaker PM from the Socialists party for the early elections.The prime minister has since failed to win the necessary backing of other parties.After the King’s decision was made public, Mr Sánchez said: “The Spanish people spoke very clearly in April, but [the other main parties] did not take it into account.“I ask the Spanish people to be even clearer on November 10.”Mr Sánchez, the leader of the Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) spent several hours trying to negotiate a last minute deal with the Popular Party (PP), Podemos and Ciudadanos, to avoid a fresh election.

“We’ll see what Pedro Sánchez suggests and then we’ll fulfil our responsibility, because Spain can’t carry on being deadlocked,” he said.Vox’s leader, Santiago Abascal, told jubilant supporters his anti-immigrant party would not let them down.