Spain’s opposition right-wing Popular Party (PP) won Sunday’s snap general election, with 100% of the votes counted, but was set to fall short of a parliamentary majority. 

• The PP and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’ Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) had 33.1% and 31.7% shares of the vote respectively, the results showed.
• This would give the PP, under leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo, 136 seats in the 350-seat lower chamber, the Congress of Deputies, and the Socialists 122 seats.

Parties now look to form coalition government

• The PP now requires support from several junior parties to achieve a governing majority of 176 seats, so the result is likely to produce weeks of political jockeying.
• The far-right Vox, which offered to partner with the PP, was projected to win 33 seats. But even with the 169 seats this would amount to, the PP would still be seven seats short.