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April 27, 2016

Spain Headed for New Election After Failed Bid to Form Leftist Coalition
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In Spain, voters are expected to head to the polls again in June after
last-ditch talks failed to form a left-wing coalition government. Spain
has been in a political deadlock after December elections, which
resulted in a Parliament deeply divided between the ruling People's
Party, the Socialist party and Podemos, which grew out of the indignados
protest movement. Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias said the Socialists
rejected a last attempt to form a coalition government.

Pablo Iglesias: "I think the deal was a good effort, an effort we would
have liked to have seen as a reality, the reality of a left-wing
coalition government. But unfortunately, when I finished my meeting with
King Felipe, I looked at my phone and saw the 'no' from the Socialist
party."

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