• Spain: socialists first party but no majority. The popular advance, boom Vox
  • Spain returns to the polls: socialist-popular duel, but the extreme right of Vox looms

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10 November 2019In Spain the stalemate remains: the country is without a ruling majority even after the second early vote of the year, which records an exploit by the ultra-right. The left moves back but the socialist party holds; the right is advancing with the Popolari who have about twenty more deputies (85) but above all Vox confirms the polls and celebrates an exploit which doubles the seats in Parliament and becomes the third force in the country. This is the scenario provided by the polls of the general elections, the fourth in four years, with 85% of the votes cast.

The right-wing bloc comes out with a slight advantage, albeit crippled by the meltdown of Ciudadanos that from the current 57 seats would stop at 10, but still far from the 176 seats required to have a majority in the classroom. Vox's contribution to 53 seats will be decisive, more than twice the current (24). In Andalusia, Santiago Abascal's party surpasses the popular and becomes the second force. The outgoing premier, Pedro Sánchez, who had called the strong vote of success at the European elections last May when he got 32.86% of the votes, comes out weakened. In numbers and negotiating power to try to form a new majority, seeking an obligatory alliance with Podemos that from the current 43 seats passes to 35. And he has not even managed to convince the Spaniards to go to the polls "to not deliver the country to the right "with a turnout of around 69% down six points. The Socialists follow the ballot in silent press confiding "in data that should give 130 seats to the Party", but at the moment they would have 122.

"In light of the forecasts we have seen so far, it seems that the Spaniards know that the alternative to Pedro Sánchez is Pablo Casado. And given the loss of seats in the PSOE, Sánchez should start thinking of leaving," said the general secretary of the The People's Party (PP) Teodoro García Egea. "The election result confirms us as a patriotic alternative to the Spaniards," celebrates Jorge Buxadé of Vox.

It will be settled within Ciudadonos, the liberal formation apparently drained by Vox. The "number two" of the movement, José Manuel Villegas, recognizes that "exit polls are not good" and hopes that "the result is better". However, he assured that "all the votes of Ciudadanos will be available to set Spain in motion". In his view, the main problem in the country is political paralysis and Cs will work to resolve it.

Esultano Salvini and Meloni
"Congratulations to Vox, who got an incredible result." This was said by Matteo Salvini during the course of La7, commenting on the first exit polls on the Iberian vote. Salvini added that "it is not a matter of the extreme right, but of people who want to control the borders of Spain, to let in those who have the right to do so".

"At the Spanish elections there was a great affirmation of Vox, an ally of Brothers of Italy in the group of European Conservatives. On unity and national sovereignty, compromises are not made ... in Spain, as in Italy, consistency pays". The president of Fratelli d'Italia, Giorgia Meloni, writes it on twitter.