Spain’s incumbent Socialist party is holding a clear lead in the country’s third election in four years, but is still short of a majority.
Should they gain support from smaller parties, it will be the first time a far-right party will enter parliament since Francisco Franco’s dictatorship ended in 1975.
With 90 per cent of votes counted, the Interior Ministry declared neither the rightist or leftist political bloc in Spain currently hold a clear majority, and a governing alliance with left-wing Podemos and possibly Catalan nationalists is necessary to form a majority.