Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists were has now lost control of southern Andalusia, which it has governed for over three decades, after Vox took a surprise 12 seats in a regional election on Sunday, handing a majority to right-wing parties in Spain’s most populous region.
It was Sanchez’s first electoral test since taking office in June after winning a vote of no-confidence against the conservative Popular Party (PP) government of Mariano Rajoy over a corruption scandal.
Top-selling daily El Pais called the resul
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Catalans Help Give European Establishment another Beating in Spain as PM Rajoy’s head is on the block after Corruption Scandal
Catalan political parties are joining the Basque Nationalist Party, the Socialists and upstart leftists Podemos to vote in favour of a No Confidence Vote against Prime Minister Rajoy after Spain’s center-right prime minister Mariano Rajoy, whose party was caught up in a kickback scandal.
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