With their 153 lawmakers, the Socialists and Sumar will need the support of several regional formations such as the left-wing Catalan separatist ERC party or the pro-independence Basque party EH Bildu, seen as the heir of the now-defunct armed separatist group ETA. "The backwards-looking bloc that wanted to roll back all the progress we made over the past four years has failed," said Sanchez, who focused his campaign on the danger of a PP-Vox government.
'Only way'Īddressing a crowd of euphoric activists shouting "No pasaran!" - the famous anti-fascist slogan of Spain's 1936-1939 civil war meaning "They shall not pass!" - Sanchez was jubilant. There needs to be another type of campaign.not insults but proposals," she told AFP in central Madrid. "But I don't know if these new elections will solve things. Leticia Soberon, a 65-year-old psychologist, said she was resigned to the idea that there will be fresh polls. "Both the right and the left have a very tenuous, and hazardous, path to a majority, and neither is very likely to succeed," said Federico Santi, analyst at political risk consultancy Eurasia Group. Sanchez's Socialists and radical left Sumar ally secured 153 seats for the left bloc. With all the votes counted, Alberto Nunez Feijoo's Popular Party (PP) and far-right Vox - its potential ally - won a total 169 seats, short of the 176 needed for a governing majority. Defying polls that for months had written him off as defeated, the Socialist premier managed to curb the gains of the right-wing opposition.
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