Elections in Spain: Socialist Pedro Sánchez left with victory

The Socialist Party (PSOE) of Pedro Sanchez won today the Spanish legislative elections with 29% of the votes, but it will have to form alliances to govern, while the irruption of the members of the right of Vox not enough to the right-wing coalition to challenge the power before the collapse of the conservative People's Party (PP), had considered 80% of the vote.

The outgoing president is clearly the winner of the elections in which the PSOE, with 123 deputies, almost doubled the number of seats in the PP which, with 16.7% of the votes, won 65 seats, a historic setback compared to the 137 deputies who had the party led by Pablo Casado.

Liberal citizens held third place with 15% of the vote and 57 seats, followed by Unidas Podemos, with 14% of the vote and 42 deputies.

Vox broke out on the spot: with 10% of the votes and 24 deputies, he became the first right-wing party to accede to the Spanish Congress of Deputies in nearly 40 years.

With these results, the PSOE must reach agreements with the leftists of Podemos and other minority parties to govern. They still do not agree if they have to agree with the Catalan separatists, who get 15 seats.

For its part, the right-wing front formed by the PP, Citizens and Vox added 148 deputies, which was far from reaching the absolute majority of the 176 seats. The progressives, PSOE and Unidos Podemos, overcome them with 165 seats.

The Spaniards voted with almost record participation in the most contested and polarized elections of the country, convulsed in recent years by the secessionist conflict in Catalonia.