Although the pundits predicted the right-wing parties would make significant gains, Spanish voters did not give the conservative coalition led by the People’s Party an absolute majority in the nation’s Congress of Deputies, the New York Times reports. The People’s Party won 136 seats while the ultra-nationalist Vox party took 33 seats.
The left-wing faction, led by the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, took a total of 160 seats among its three key groups; the Socialist Worker’s Party itself actually increased its seats in the Congress by picking up two additional seats. People’s Party leader Alberto Feijóo will have to “Kevin McCarthy” a coalition to hit a majority 176 seats in the 350-seat legislature.