Spain election: Socialists win amid far-right breakthrough (BBC)

Spain’s governing Socialists won the country’s third election in four years, but have fallen short of a majority.

PM Pedro Sánchez’s party polled 29% and will need the help of either left-wing Podemos and regional parties, or the centre right, to form a government.

For the first time since military rule ended in the 1970s, a far-right party, Vox, is set to enter parliament.

Vox opposes multiculturalism, unrestricted migration, and what it calls “radical feminism”. Read more

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