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Spain´s Rajoy claims right to form government after poll win
His Popular Party (PP) was the big winner of the election, the second in six months, which played out amid the turbulence from Britain´s shock vote to leave the European Union. The party, which portrayed itself as the guardian of stability, won 137 seats in the 350-strong lower house of parliament -- 14 more than in December and more than what pre-election polls predicted. All other parties lost votes or seats, in some cases both. The Socialists held on to second place like in December, though with just 85 seats, their worst score in modern history. The far-left Unidos Podemos coalition came third with 71 seats, reversing pre-election expectations that it could leapfrog over the Socialists and replace them as the main left-wing force. Market-friendly party Ciudada**s, meanwhile, finished fourth as in December with 32 seats, down from 40, as many of the party´s voters moved back to the PP. But while the PP boosted its seats, it still faces the same challenges to form a government as after the December polls when Podemos and Ciudada**s uprooted the country´s two-party dominance. Without a majority, it will need to seek the outright or tacit support of other parties to get a coalition or mi**rity government through. The combined total number of seats if PP teams up with Ciudada**s, their natural ally, is **t e**ugh to form a majority centre-right government so they may need to court the Socialists too or smaller regional parties. But other parties have been reluctant to back the PP, which has been tainted by a string of corruption scandals and anger over high unemployment and the steep public spending cuts it has put in place. The general election in December resulted in a parliament so splintered that parties failed to agree on a coalition, and this is what prompted Sunday´s repeat vote. after failing to form a government after the last polls, political leaders will be under more pressure this time to form some sort of government. Top-selling daily newspaper El Pais, which is traditionally close to the Socialists, urged the party in an editorial on Monday to allow the PP to govern. After the last elections the Socialists tried to form a coalition government with Ciudada**s but were **t able to pass a required vote of confidence in parliament. Throughout the campaign -- and with greater insistence after the Brexit vote -- the PP had hammered away at the need for stability in reference to the rise of Unidos Podemos, which like Greece´s ruling Syriza party rejects EU-backed austerity. Rajoy has argued that since the PP came to power in 2011, it has brought Spain back to growth and overseen a drop in unemployment -- though at 21 percent it is still the second highest rate in the EU after Greece. But his rivals retort that inequalities have risen, the jobs created are mainly unstable, and they point to the repeated corruption scandals to have hit the PP. Despite this, though, many voters still went for the PP led by Rajoy, who has portrayed himself as a safe pair of hands. أكثر... ??????? ??????: Spain´s Rajoy claims right to form government after poll win || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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