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Spanish Socialist PM Pedro Sánchez Wins Election as Far-Right Vox Party Makes Gains

HeadlineApr 29, 2019

In Spain, incumbent Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will retain his position after a general election on Sunday that also saw a far-right party make big gains. Sánchez’s Socialist Workers’ Party won 123 seats, an increase over the last election, but fell short of winning an outright parliamentary majority. The anti-immigrant Vox party, which vowed to “make Spain great again,” won 24 seats. It’s the first time since the Franco dictatorship that a fascist party won more than one seat in Spain’s parliament.

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