With No Clear Winner, Spain Election Results Defy Predictions. Hung Parliament Likely

<p>Spain is likely facing a hung parliament after hard-fought elections give no winner hinting towards prospects of coalition-building, reported CNN. According to Reuters, the results failed the predictions of a big enough victory for the rights that might throw Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez out of power. Now, with 100 per cent votes counted, the opposition center-right People's Party (PP) had 136 seats in parliament while Sanchez ruling Socialists (PSOE) had 122 seats, as per Reuters.&nbsp;</p> <p>A party or a coalition needs a minimum of 176 seats in the 350-seat legislature to form a government. As per the report, the upstart far-right Vox party won 33 and far-left Sumar bagged 31 seats. Vox party is a possible coalition partner to PP, the reports added.&nbsp;</p> <p>During a speech at party headquarters, PP leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo lauded the fact that his party&rsquo;s vote share increased from 21 per cent to 33 per cent and said he was &lsquo;very proud&rsquo;, CNN mentioned in the report.&nbsp;</p> <p>According to the opinion polls, the election will likely produce a win for Alberto Nunez Feijoo's centre-right People's Party, but to form a government it will need to partner with Santiago Abascal's far-right Vox. This would be the first time a far-right party entered government since Francisco Franco's dictatorship ended in the 1970s, reported Reuters.</p> <p>If such a coalition is formed, it would mark the return of a far-right force to the Spanish government for the first time since the country's transition to democracy in the late 1970s, following the nearly 40-year rule of dictator Francisco Franco.</p> <p>Postal workers arrived at polling stations with boxes of postal votes on Sunday. The postal service reported on Saturday that postal votes had set an all-time record of 2.47 million, as many people choose to cast their ballot from the beach or mountains.</p> <p>The prime minister's minority Socialist (PSOE) government is currently in coalition with far-left Unidas Podemos that is running in Sunday's election under the Sumar platform.</p>