July 23, 2023

No single party or bloc is on course to win an outright majority in Spain’s snap general election, according to a tally with about 99 percent of votes counted.

The conservative People’s Party (PP) was set to narrowly win the election on Sunday but without the majority needed to topple the coalition government of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

The PP was on course to secure 136 of the 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Spanish parliament.

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