Opinion polls, which ended on Monday, have suggested it will be harder for a right wing split between three parties - the centre-right Ciudadanos, conservative People’s Party and Vox - to clinch a majority, but this scenario is within polls’ margin of error and cannot be ruled out.
Spain goes to the polls on Sunday for its most divisive and open-ended election in decades, set to result in a fragmented parliament in which the far-right will get a sizeable presence for the first time since the country’s return to democracy.
After a tense campaign dominated by issues such as national identity and gender equality, the likelihood that any coalition deal will take weeks or months to be brokered will feed into a broader mood of political uncertainty across Europe.
At least five parties from across the political spectrum have a chance of being in government and they could struggle to agree on a deal between them, meaning a repeat election is one of several possible outcomes.
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2019-04-28
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