Madrid: Spain’s newly elected Parliament meets on Thursday to choose the chamber’s speaker and presiding council, a normally routine vote but which this time will be read as a bellwether of a future government.
Inconclusive national elections on July 23 left no party with an easy path to cobble together the support needed to lead a government. Parties on the left and right of the spectrum are delicately poised in the fight for power. Acting PM
Pedro Sanchez appears to have a slight edge over his conservative and rightwing rivals.