SPAIN-ELECTION/SANCHEZ (UPDATE 1):UPDATE 1-Spain's PM Sanchez calls snap general election in July
With voters fed up at squabbling within Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s government coalition, the opposition PP won outright in two of 12 regions where there were elections and could form a majority with Vox’s support in another six.
“Vox is here to stay and is here to be decisive in the construction of the alternative Spain needs,” its leader Santiago Abascal said in a speech early on Monday, adding he had not yet spoken to PP leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo. The PP’s gains and Vox’s solid performance indicate the conservatives could unseat Sanchez and his Socialist Workers’ Party if they replicate the performance in the general election.
The main setbacks for the Socialists came from losses in the Valencia, Aragon and Balearic Island regions, as well as in one of their most important fiefdoms, the southwestern region of Extremadura.In big cities such as Valencia and Seville, where mayors were also elected, the count turned in favour of the PP, which also won an absolute majority in the city of Madrid.
Barcelona was an outlier among big cities, with a pro-independence party winning, though by such a narrow margin that it will need an agreement with the Socialists to unseat the mayor, far-left Ada Colau.
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