That was the political map and the possible agreements after the elections in Spain

The Socialist Party (PSOE) of Pedro Sanchez colored the political map of Spain to become the big winner of the parliamentary elections held on Sunday with 123 deputies, which will allow him to reach the majority for probably rule with the support of the left. minority parties and the abstention of secessionists.

The acting president was about to be re-elected to the executive by an absolute majority, but he has a good chance of winning the second round of voting because he needs a simple majority , that is to say, a number of votes greater than the number of votes cast.

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With 99.99% of the votes counted, the PSOE won a convincing victory from 85 to 123 seats (28.70%), while the Conservative Popular Party (PP), on the contrary, experienced a historic debacle 137 to 66 MPs (16.68%) are short of options to lead a right-wing alternative government.

For its part, citizens went from 32 to 57 seats (15.84%), leftists from Unidas Podemos and their Catalan allies won 42 seats (14%) and right-wing members of Vox entered the Congress of Deputies with 24 deputies (10.26%).

The ERC separatists won 15 seats after being for the first time the most voted force in Catalonia in the general elections, followed by the Socialists, while the other secessionist force, Junts per Catalunya, has won 7 seats.

The rest of the political map is completed by the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), with 6 seats, the Basque separatists of Bildu, with 4 seats, CCa-PNC (Canarian Coalition – Canarian National Party), Navarra Suma uno, Compromís (Valencian ) and the Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC), also headquarters.

Sanchez's first objective is to add support to his nomination motion which, to be overcome in the first vote, must reach an absolute majority of votes, threshold of 176 seats.

This could be achieved without relying on the Catalan separatists if it gets the support of Unidas Podemos, PNV, Compromís, the PRC and the Canaria Coalition, and Bildu, although the latter, also independentist, can be difficult to convince. Without this last force, it would remain a goal.

Sanchez may also choose to republish the support he's got in the no-confidence motion against conservative Mariano Rajoy, but this involves the secessionists' favorable vote. In this case, he would have 198 supports.

The political cost of getting support from the ERC and / or JxC can be very high for Sanchez, who would nevertheless be more likely to make secessionists facilitate their election with a second-round abstention.

Finally, the figures allow Sanchez to choose a pact with Ciudadanos, to which the PSOE adds 180 seats, but the party of Albert Rivera has publicly rejected any agreement with the Socialist leader, so that this mode of negotiation would not easy to continue.