The centre-right opposition comes top, but lacks a path to a majority
took 136 of 350 seats. But polls had predicted it would get close to 150. Added to the 33 seats of the hard-right Vox party, that fell short of the 176 needed for a majority.
The party seemed to lose momentum in the campaign’s final week. Mr Feijóo made factual mistakes about pensions in a television interview. An old picture of him with a man later convicted of drug-trafficking resurfaced in the media, and he took a break from the campaign trail because of back pain. None of these things should have been decisive. But the swagger with which the party headed into the election had dissipated.
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