I Popular in Feijoo win the eagerly awaited elections in Spain and gain 136 seats but do not have the absolute majority (176 votes) needed to govern, not even adding up the votes of the extreme right of Vox which flops with only 33 seats. They resist i socialists of the outgoing premier Sanchez, which gather 122 seats which can be joined by the 31 seats of Sumar by Yolanda Diaz.
Conclusion: none of the two alignments, neither the right nor the left, alone has the numbers to form the new government. The tipping point are the pro-independence groups and above all the Catalans who have 13 seats.
Very complex negotiations are now opening and it is not excluded that there will be a return to new elections.
The constitutional lawyer Stefano explains Snipers: “In Spain the right has lost the elections because it is unable to have either an absolute or a relative majority and implacably stops at 171 votes (Pp, Vox, Cc and Upn) certainly having against the other 179 either because of the left or because regionalist. Sanchez, on the other hand, potentially has 172 votes against 171, i.e. the sum of Psoe and Sumar as well as all the regionalist votes, except for the Catalans of Junts who could abstain. In theory, therefore, Sanchez should be able to have a relative or even absolute majority if Junts decides to vote Yes: then we would reach 179 votes".
