The general elections held this Sunday could lead Spain to a situation of political blockade, since neither the PP nor the PSOE have obtained enough seats to be able to easily invest their candidates with presidents.
With 97% of the vote counted, the PP has won the general elections by obtaining 136 seats, 47 more than those it achieved in 2019, with the PSOE as the second political force and 122 seats, two more, although the result of the elections greatly complicates the possibility of a successful investiture.
And this is because none of the right and left blocks have enough representatives in principle to reach an absolute majority in the first round of an investiture or a simple one in a second with more votes in favor than against.
Vox leaves 19 seats in these elections and remains with 33 deputies in Congress, while Sumar, the left-wing coalition headed by Yolanda Díaz, ranks fourth with 31 seats, four less than those obtained by United We Can in the previous elections.
Among the pro-independence forces, ERC suffers a severe setback, falling from 13 to 7 representatives, Junts per Catalunya loses one and remains with six, and EH-Bildu surpasses the PNV for the first time, with six deputies compared to five of the jeltzales.
The BNG retains its only seat, the Canary Islands Coalition wins one and also UPN, so that the new chamber will be made up of eleven different parties.
The entry The PP wins but does not have an absolute majority with Vox and it will be difficult to govern was first published in EFE Noticias.