Spain. Parliamentary Elections. Results. Who will form the government?

The Spanish elected 350 members of Congress, the lower house of parliament, members of parliament, and 208 senators for four-year terms. Other members of the Senate, the 265-member upper house, are later elected by the parliaments of the autonomous communities.

The People’s Party (PP), after counting more than 95 percent of the votes, could win 136 seats in the 350-seat lower house of parliament. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s ruling Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) is close behind with 122 seats.

No party has won a single majority. Neither PP nor PSOE will be satisfied with the support of the parties indicated as their potential coalition partners – Vox and Sumar respectively.

The far-right Vox came third with 33 seats. The Left is in fourth position with around 31 seats.

Spanish media, however, point out that the PSOE and Sumer’s left-wing coalition have more coalition potential than Vox’s potential alliance with the PP, and that each would find it easier to garner the support of smaller parties that have won several seats. So it is not out of the question that Pedro Sánchez will try to form a government. However, the right-wing Catalan Junds could stand in his way for the Catalonia party, which should abstain from voting in a confidence vote, which is highly unlikely at this point. Spain therefore faces a period of great uncertainty.

According to data from Spain’s state electoral commission, 37.5 million people were allowed to vote on Sunday, with 1.6 million voting for the first time. The office in charge of conducting the election announced that 2.47 million Spaniards had previously voted by mail.

Of the 75 political parties and constituencies contesting the elections, almost half were small local groups.

As reported by the National Meteorological Service (AEMET), temperatures were in the shade of 30-40 degrees Celsius in most parts of Spain on Sunday afternoon.

According to local media, which wrote about the “massive” voter turnout in the election, Spaniards were undaunted by the heat. As of 2 pm, the Home Ministry said that 40.5 percent of the electorate had cast their votes. Entitled. According to the Election Commission, the voter turnout was 2.56 percent higher this phase compared to the 2019 parliamentary elections.

It is reported that nine thousand liters of water and nine thousand wind turbines have been distributed to more than 60.3 thousand polling stations due to convection.

Voters who reached the polling station before noon were urged to avoid queuing in the sun to vote. The most efficient turnout took place in the village of Villaroya, in the autonomous community of La Rioja in northern Spain. On Sunday, a record number of all eligible voters – seven citizens – was set. They voted in just 26 seconds, extending their own record by three seconds.

Sunday’s vote was the result of a decision by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who dissolved the Cortes Generales in May after the ruling Socialists were defeated from the PSOE to regional and local authorities.

In announcing early parliamentary elections, the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party announced that he wanted to give citizens a chance to express their opinion on the state of the country.