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Polls show Spain’s governing conservatives may have most votes

spanishpmVoting has ended in Spain’s hotly contested general elections and the nation holds its breath until all the ballots are counted.

Exit polls indicate that PM Mariano Rajoy’s governing centre-right Popular Party (PP) has won the most seats.

But it will not have gained an overall majority.

The PP's predicted 114 to 118 seats in the 350-seat parliament appear well below the 176 necessary for an absolute majority. It had ruled alone with its 186 seats in the outgoing parliament.

The Socialist Party is likely to take second place with between 81 to 85.

Anti-austerity Podemos could take 76 to 80 seats, leaving the centre-ground Ciudadanos (Citizens) party in fourth place, according to the polls, with 47 to 50 seats.

If the PP does not have a ruling majority of seats, it will need to form a cross-party agreement in order to govern.

Although the Spanish economy has begun to improve under PM Rajoy, unemployment remains perilously high for adults (21%) and young people (50%). Public services have been set back by all the austerity cuts.

Podemos and Ciudadanos both campaigned hard on issues of corruption and accused the PP and Socialists of having more concern for keeping power than for the needs of voters.

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