The ruling party won the parliamentary elections in Spain – Kommersant

After treatment, 89.72% of protocols became clear that Spain’s People’s Party, led by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, won. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kingdom, the People’s Party won 122 seats (for it have voted 28.7% of voters) in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party – 91 seat (22% of the votes), the left “Podemos” -42 seats ( 12.6%), the centrist “Citizens” – 40 (13.88). The Parliament also passed the “Left Republicans of Catalonia”, “Democracy and Freedom”, it left the coalition “National unity – the United Left,” the Nationalist Basque Party, the Basque party Bildu and “Canary Coalition».

Voting ended at 20:00 local time (22:00 Moscow time). Turnout as of 18:00 local time (20:00 Moscow time) amounted to 58,36%.

Recall for 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies (lower house) 208 Senate seats and claimed 4353 people – 2263 men and 2090 women. The candidates were nominated 13 parties and associations. For on the day of the vote followed 92.7 thousand. Representatives of different security services – national and local police, Civil Guard and other units. Holding elections cost the state budget in € 130,24 mln.

For more information about the campaign, see the article “b”, “Spanish” populists “do not do without the people.”