MADRID (AP) - Spain’s center-left Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez has failed to win the support of the far-left We Can party for his bid to form a government, prolonging the political limbo in the eurozone’s fourth-largest economy.
Sanchez won the most votes in April’s general election but he is far short of a parliamentary majority. He needs to negotiate extra votes to get lawmakers’ approval, in a confidence vote later this month, to take office.
A fifth round of talks between Sánchez and We Can leader Pablo Iglesias broke down without agreement Tuesday. The two major right-of-center parties in parliament say they will block Sánchez’s attempt to return to power.
The Socialists have 123 seats in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies, Spain’s parliament.
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