
Spaniards voted in a general election on 23 July. The election was called early. Pedro Sánchez, the current acting prime minister, brought it forward after the Socialist Party (PSOE) polled poorly in municipal and regional elections on 28 May, and the prospect of an internal rebellion within the party loomed.
The polls, up to 22 July, indicated that the winner of the general election would be the right-wing bloc: the People’s Party (PP) would be able to form a government with Vox (populist far right-wing party), with which it has already governed in coalition in regions and municipalities.