Spain: Felipe VI dissolved Congress and called elections | Peru Trade – Trade

King Felipe VI dissolved Parliament today Spain and called for new elections in the absence of agreement to form a government, which reopens the race for political parties, which aim to improve the latest results.

Although still has not officially started the campaign for the next elections to be held next June 26, the major parties have already launched his “election machinery”, with traditional reproaches his adversaries.

all this while the fourth largest economy in the euro zone still battle to heal the wounds of the crisis, as an unemployment rate of 21%, the second highest in the EU after Greece and reduce its public deficit.

so far surveys indicate that the results of the next election would be very similar to last December 20, when no party won enough to govern most

in those elections, the Popular party (PP, center-right) won 123 seats, the socialists (PSOE) 90, followed by two new parties in the national political scene. we can ( left), with 69 seats, and Citizens (liberal), with 40

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Thus ends the legislature shorter since the restoration of democracy in 1977, after nearly four decades of dictatorship of General Francisco Franco (1939-1975), and the only culminated without having formed a government, a fact unusual in the rest of Europe.

“this is the first time that this occurs in the democratic era, because we have not been able to fulfill the citizen mandate to reach an agreement sufficient majority to form a government,” he lamented the president of Congress, Patxi Lopez, in a brief appearance.

“I hope we have all learned the lesson,” he added.

in the elections of December 20, the PP head of government since 2011, Mariano Rajoy won the elections, but going from 186 seats to 123. his great rival, the PSOE obtained the worst result in its history with 90 deputies, against 110 in 2011.

Just behind him emerged two new formations. we can, radical left, which obtained 65 deputies along with several allies and Citizens (center-right), who won 40 seats

for the first time in recent history a coalition government was needed , but the parties were unable to negotiate.

Without support of any other party, Rajoy rejected the request of King Philip VI of trying to form an executive. The PSOE, which took the parcel, tried but failed. Its leader, Pedro Sanchez, got insufficient according to the center-right Citizens in which we could not include.

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Source: EFE / AFP