Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s conservative Prime Minister, was last night believed to have suffered devastating losses in national elections, robbing him of his absolute majority and leaving him casting around for a political pact with one of his rivals.
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Socialist party official Cesar Luena said Rajoy’s Popular Party, which won the most votes, should have the first crack at forming a government but ruled out supporting Rajoy, eliminating the possibility of an unprecedented coalition between the two parties which have dominated Spanish politics for decades.
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Sonia said the government is misusing its agencies, “but none of us will be frightened as our struggle will continue”. Antony were already present in the court room to express solidarity when the Congress chief entered the court.
Rajoy said he would only reach out to parties that promised to defend the unity of Spain, suggesting that Podemos and Catalan separatist parties, who won 17 seats in the election, would be left out of the talks.
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Abstention by the Socialists would allow a Rajoy-led minority government because Ciudadanos has already said it would abstain.
Another newcomer, centre-right Ciudadadanos, said it would not vote against Rajoy as new PM.
The two newly popular parties (Podemos was created previous year; Ciudadanos has been around for a while but has recently gained traction) are led by young, charismatic leaders.
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Rivera’s deputy Jose Manuel Villegas said the “two ancient parties” – PP and PSOE – “won’t have power anymore”. Now politics here are likely to look like the rest of Europe with grand coalitions like Germany.
Also at stake is whether Spain continues to follow the belt-tightening measures to cut its budget deficit that the PP credits for helping end a recession and generate economic growth above the euro zone average.
He vowed after the vote to try to form a government, but gave few details on how he would do so after winning just 123 seats in the 350-member lower house of parliament.
The leader of Spain’s opposition Socialists said Wednesday he will not support any effort by acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to stay on in his post via a coalition or a minority government.
The Socialists won 90 seats, compared with 110 four years ago, when they were ousted from office after an economic crisis hit Spain. But there is a threat like what happened in Portugal that Podemos and Socialists and Izquierda Unida, another leftist party and also Izquierda Republicana, another party from Catalonia which is pro-independence can form a new government.
Mr Rajoy’s government is credited with dragging Spain back from the abyss and returning it to growth.
Although analysts say these results could make it extremely hard for the PP to form a government because it wouldn’t get a majority of seats in Parliament by allying with Ciudadanos, its most natural partner.
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But unemployment remains stubbornly high at more than 21 per cent, and millions of Spaniards became fed up with austerity-sparked inequality as well as repeated corruption scandals – one of the factors behind the rise of the two new parties.
