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Spain’s Socialist leader tapped to try to form government | |
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MADRID — Spain’s king has tapped Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez to try to form a government following an inconclusive December election in which the country’s conservative Popular Party came in first but didn’t win enough support to cobble together a coalition. | |
Parliamentary speaker Patxi Lopez told reporters Tuesday night that King Felipe VI made the decision after meeting with Sanchez and with acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who heads the Popular Party. | |
Sanchez must now try to negotiate with two new upstart parties who made big inroads with voters upset with austerity, high unemployment and official corruption. | |
The Popular Party and the Socialists have alternately ruled Spain for decades, but far-left Podemos came in third in the Dec. 20 election and the business-friendly Ciudadanos came in fourth. | |
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