Morning Star.png Podemos Refuses: New Election Likely The Morning Star, London, 3 March 2016 Spain's left-wing Podemos party apparently ended the prospect of a coalition government with the Socialist Party (PSOE) yesterday, raising the prospect of new elections. PSOE leader Pedro Sanchez sought the backing of the hung parliament to form a coalition. But before the vote Podemos general secretary Pablo Iglesias said he would not join a coalition with fellow newcomer, the centre-right party Citizens, which Mr Sanchez has courted. People's Party leader and Acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy also rejected the Socialist bid. Like Syriza in Greece, Podemos has seen a meteoric rise since it formed in 2014. Mr Rajoy, who has headed a caretaker government since losing his majority in December, said his 123 MPs would vote against Mr Sanchez's coalition. That leaves Mr Sanchez with only the support of his 90 MPs and 40 Citizens MPs in the 350-seat parliament. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-a375-Spain-Podemos-coalition-refusal-sp ells-doom-for-Socialists#.Vte-cvl9600 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
