Spain’s Socialist party is ready to negotiate deals with rival parties on certain issues after it won a general election but failed to obtain a parliamentary majority, a senior Socialist official has said. Spain’s Socialist party is ready to negotiate deals with rival parties on certain issues after it won a general election but failed to obtain a parliamentary majority, a senior Socialist official has said. Prime minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist party is capable of running the country as a minority government, Ms Celaa told reporters on Tuesday after the weekly Cabinet meeting. But, she said, the Socialists “are open to talking to everybody” on certain topics that might smooth the government’s work. The prospect of forming a government was no closer on Tuesday, two days after Spain’s third general election in four years.

Source: Irish Independent April 30, 2019 16:07 UTC