MADRID: Voting started on Sunday in Spain's 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 many years of instability and uncertainty, it’s important that today we send a clear, defined message about the Spain we want. And from there a broad parliamentary majority must be built that can support a stable government,” Sanchez told reporters after voting in a polling station near Madrid.
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.
FILE PHOTO: Spain's Prime Minister and Socialist Workers' Party candidate Pedro Sanchez attends an electoral campaign closing rally in Valencia, Spain April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Heino Kalis/File Photo Voters in the depopulating rural heartlands - many of whom are old and may well feel little direct connection to the country's young, male, urban political elite - are of particular importance.
While Vox's leader was excluded from the TV debates, which analysts said could help his narrative of being against"the system", Sanchez was rather subdued and Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias, whose party was struggling in polls, was considered by many as having given a strong performance.
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