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The Spanish left won the right-wing bloc in the legislative elections and was on the verge of securing the parliamentary majority needed to reach La Moncloa. The Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), led by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, found the centrality of the political scene and was the most voted force with 28.7% of the vote. A result that gives 123 seats to the Congress of Deputies. United We could take a slight step back from the last polls before the elections and get 14.3% of the vote, the equivalent of 42 legislators. The sum of the two forces will get 165 seats and will constitute eleven of the absolute majority, which could be in line with the support of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and other small groups. An arithmetic that allows him to do without the forces of the sovereignty of Catalonia.

The main Spanish media wrote titles that gave the PSOE victory and predicted a government with UP. The leader of the force has even called on Pedro Sanchez to congratulate him and express his desire to form a coalition of progressive forces. However, the winner and socialist candidate for the presidency of the government was not so clear. Faced with an important militancy at the socialist headquarters of the city of Madrid, Sanchez did not mention UP, and gave ambiguous answers about the candidates for the formation of a government.

A few minutes after the start of his speech and after thanking the seven million Spaniards who supported the PSOE in the elections, Sánchez was interrupted by cries of militancy ", with Rivera, no, with Rivera, no" , with reference to the possibility of a pact with the citizens, as would be the establishment of the Iberian country. The president's response was lukewarm, "I think it's pretty clear," in reference to his statement in this week's televised debate, when he said his plan was not agree with Rivera.

Later, Sanchez declared that socialism would rule Spain and that it would appeal to all political forces to advance the leftist measures it represents. At this point, activism again expressed its anger "with Rivera, no, with Rivera, no," and Sánchez held them back: "I listened to them, I listened to them."

It is logical that, in his first speech as future President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez tries to send a message of harmony in a context of tension and territorial polarization similar to that suffered by Spain. However, it is unlikely that the Socialist will be indifferent to the activism of the party that embraced him when the former leadership of the PSOE banned him and forced him to participate in the party primaries without his support. This same activism that sent him back to the general secretariat of the PSOE, which allowed him to be the candidate for the presidency of the government during the motion of censure that put an end to the executive of Mariano Rajoy, and who drove to the same stadium of the Spanish capital. He delivered his victorious speech.

Contrary to the ambiguity of Sánchez, Pablo Iglesias and Albert Rivera were as crystalline as they could be. The leader of the UP claimed that the sum of the votes obtained by his forces allowed "to restrict the right and the extreme right and to form a coalition government of the left". For his part, the president of Cs, said that Sánchez and Iglesias would form a government and that the force he will lead would be a "loyal opposition to the constitution, the market economy" and "qu & # 39; They would watch the new government closely. He also kept a few words to express his condolences to the PP and call himself the main opposition party. A proposal for which there is no lack of reason or arguments.

The People's Party (PP), the main force on the right, suffered a historic defeat. The second-most-voted party, it received 16.7 percent support, 66 seats, less than half of the previous election, and the worst result since its founding in 1989. Citizens were the third most voted party, well that nibbling the heels of Pablo Casado and marking a strong growth compared to the elections of 2016. The total number of votes that he obtained is 15.8, which gives him a not inconsiderable amount of 57 seats.

For its part, the ultra – right Vox will make its disturbing entrance to the Spanish Congress with a total of 24 MPs, less than announced by polls in recent days, and the air of the day. euphoria that has circulated in social networks and meetings of the force that leads Santiago Abascal. From one stage in the Spanish capital, the Vox leader has made clear his disagreement with the results, but has promised that it would only be the beginning of Vox's history in the country.

Pablo Casado repeated a speech of apology and blamed the fragmentation of the right for the bad result of his political strength. Some political badysts have wondered whether the young wonder that José María Aznar had pushed to replace Mariano Rajoy would withdraw or be thrown to the lions by the old popular barons. For the moment, neither has occurred. Pablo Casado devoted part of his speech to asking the right to think about the question of whether it would be more positive to join the regional elections in May and in the future. A scenario that seems unlikely against the statements of Rivera and Abascal.

Another tectonic movement that marked these elections took place in the region of Catalonia. The Catalan population took to the streets to express their vote and increase voter turnout by nearly one million compared to the 2016 elections. The results placed Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya among the most voted forces. The sovereignist left won first place in its community for the first time in its history and will enter the 15 deputies of Congress. Second place goes to the Catalan Socialist Party, which, reinforced by the mental support provided by the administration of Sánchez to the central government, managed to gather 12 deputies in Congress, five more than in the previous elections.

In another region of Spain, major collisions also took place. In the Basque Country, the sovereignist parties improved their representation and left the PP without him. The head of the PNV, Andoni Ortuzar, said that he had reached out to "achieve dialogue and relaxation", but had also spoken of recognizing the "multi-national reality of the state", a concept of the nation that the PP, the Cs and much less Vox, think recognize the leader of EH Bildu and ex-militant of the ETA armed organization, Arnaldo Otegui, pointed out the more than a million of voices obtained by the forces of the country's independence and baderted that that day they had defeated the reactionary bloc at the head of the "Bourbon" the Ibex35 and the trifachito ", in reference to the King of Spain, to the Spanish stock market index and the right block that make up PP, Cs and Vox.

The news of the electoral result is too numerous and it will take a few days to digest and sort them. For the moment, it is clear that bipartisanship is over in the country and that the next Spanish government will be a coalition of parties. What color, only Pedro Sánchez knows, and he has not yet wanted to reveal it.