Exasperated Spanish voters may soon see an end to the political deadlock that has left the country without a government since last December. Spain’s embattled Socialists have voted to abstain from a parliamentary confidence vote in a move which will allow the conservatives to form a minority government.
Following the announcement of the Socialist vote, Pablo Iglesias, the Podemos leader, tweeted: “The end of the ‘turnism’ of the two-party system. The Grand Coalition is born.”
The United Left party tweeted: “Game over, the oligarchy has won.” Javier Fernández, who is in charge of PSOE until it elects a new leader, argued that abstention was the “lesser evil”, given that the other option was to force an election in December – which would have been Spain’s third in a year.
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