Pedro Sanchez is favorite in Spain, the far right party is in ambush

The outgoing Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is given a winner in the polls but without the absolute majority, which will force all parties to seek to form coalitions, with a parliament more fragmented than ever and polarized by the attempt of secession of Catalonia in 2017.

The Spaniards began voting on Sunday in tense elections where the head of the Socialist government, leading the polls, warns against the resurgence of the far right more than 40 years after the death of dictator Francisco Franco.

The ultranationalist party Vox is the announced surprise of these third legislative elections in three and a half years. Marginal just six months ago, he created a political earthquake by garnering nearly 11% of the vote in elections in the southern region of Andalusia.

Vox could make an entry into force in the Chamber of Deputies, with more than 10% of the vote and thirty seats out of 350 according to polls, in a country where the extreme right was absent from the landscape since the death of Franco in 1975 The Spaniards also renew Sunday a large part of the Senate......