Far-right rise would give conservatives majority in Spain: poll
Spain's far-right party Vox would enter parliament with 43-45 seats if an election was held today, giving conservative parties an absolute majority, a poll showed yesterday.
The poll comes amid rising speculation that Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will call a snap general election this year.
His ruling Socialist Party would be unable to stay in power, even though it came in first place with 22.6 percent of the vote, down from 26.3 percent in July, according to the survey published in El Mundo.
That would give it just 92-96 seats in 350-member parliament. Even if it joined forces with far-left party Podemos and tiny Catalan and Basque nationalist parties it would not be able to form a majority.
Sanchez came to power in June after a surprise no-confidence vote against his conservative predecessor with the support of these parties but this coalition would now only have a maximum of 167 seats, according to the poll conducted by Sigma Dos.
His government is struggling to approve a draft budget for 2019, sparking expectations of a snap national election in 2019.
Vox, which clinched a surprise 12 seats in a regional election in Andalusia last month, would capture 13 percent of the vote.
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