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Inconclusive national elections in July had left no party with an easy path to cobble together the support needed to lead a government.
The socialist government of Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has secured the presidency over its parliament’s main administrative body after his socialist candidate won the support of two pro-Catalan independence parties at the eleventh hour.
ADVERTISEMENTSpain’s outgoing prime minister breathed a sigh of relief after Francina Armengol secured the backing of the hard-line wing of Catalan independence, thereby electing Armengol as the new president of Congress by an absolute majority.
Inconclusive national elections on 23 July left no major party with an easy path to cobble together the support needed to lead a government and meant parties on the left and right of the spectrum were delicately poised in the fight for power.
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