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Socialist Workers' Party leader and current Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez greets supporters outside the party's headquarters in Madrid, Spain, Sunday July 23, 2023.
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SPAIN’S left-of-centre parties pulled off a surprise win in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, final results showed today, dispelling fears that the far-right Vox party would enter national government for the first time.
Although the conservative Popular Party (PP) picked up more seats than any other single party, a drop in support for Vox, with which the PP had been expected to form a coalition, left the Spanish Socialist Workers Party of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and its allies with a slightly stronger presence in the lower house Congress of Deputies.
The bloc likely to support Mr Sanchez totalled 172 seats, while parties on the right had 170.
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