Spain faces weeks of coalition talks after Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists won snap elections without a majority, splitting the right-wing bloc but letting ultra nationalists into parliament. “We should wait and see what will happen in the municipal elections…in many regions and of course in the European Parliament,” the president of the Socialist party told Spanish public radio. The three rightist parties together have 147 seats, far from the 176-seat majority in the 350-seat parliament needed to govern. Sanchez could also try to cosy up to center-right Ciudadanos, which won 57 seats. “With Rivera no!” Socialist supporters chanted outside of the party’s headquarters on Sunday night as a beaming Sanchez delivered his victory speech.

Source: Egypt Independent April 29, 2019 11:37 UTC