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Michel-Philippe Robitaille, Doctorant et chargé de cours en sociologie, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Early elections in Spain: The socialists' risky bet against the rising power of the right

Left or right: that will be the choice of Spanish voters in the early general elections on July 23, which could see a far-right party enter government. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spanish voters are headed to the polls on July 23, in the midst of the summer holiday period.

Two questions will keep analysts busy until well after the election. First, will it be possible to form a government supported by a stable majority in parliament? And second, will the government include elected officials from Vox, a far-right party hostile to immigration, as well as the rights of women and sexual and gender minorities?

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