The Spanish Election Result

In the Spanish parliament to have an absolute majority you need 176 seats.  The left bloc currently has 158 seats and the right bloc 152.  Its close.

With 95 per cent of the votes counted, as I write,  it looks like PSOE have the largest nunber of seats – 120 – followed by PP at 88 and Vox the ultra right quasi fascist party with 52 seats – an alarming development,  Podemos the left wing party is down to 35 seats and Ciudadanos the centre right party has been slaughtered – down from 47 seats to 10.

There has been a definite shift to the right but  not enough to dislodge a potential left wing bloc of PSOE, Podemos and one or two others.

It will be a hung parliament with months of uncertainty and backroom dealing in store

ROBBO