MADRID (AP) – Spaniards are voting in a general election Sunday, just six months after a last unsuccessful attempt to pick a new government.
The unprecedented repeat election comes after political parties that won seats in Parliament last December were unable to decide on which of them should take power. A look at what is happening politically in Spain.
___
WHY IS ANOTHER VOTE NEEDED?
After four years in power, the conservative Popular Party collected most votes in last December’s ballot but didn’t elect enough lawmakers to give it a majority in Parliament, like it had before. Mariano Rajoy, the party’s leader and incumbent prime minister, couldn’t get enough support from rival parties to form either a minority government or a coalition.