Spain's Ruling Socialists Suffer Historic Defeat in Regional Election

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In Spain, conservatives and extreme right have won the regional election in Extremadura.

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The atmosphere of the headquarters of the PSOE in Extremadura kept sight on Sunday night of a hall of tanatorio. Comunged faces, hugs that of pure feeling resonated in...

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The People's Party (PP, Conservative) again won on Sunday a regional election in Extremadura, in western Spain, a vote...

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Whether voters would hold Prime Minister Sánchez's Socialist Workers' Party accountable for the scandals surrounding it remained to be seen in Sunday's elections in Extremadura. The answer was yes: the traditionally socialist region in southwestern Spain voted decisively for the right.

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The defeat was assured, but not even for anticipating the bad result the decalabro has been more digestible. The PSOE not only loses, but gives to the right a historic socialist bastion without options of dispute . Extremadura has traditionally been under the hegemony of the fist and the rose: the party has ruled nine of the eleven legislatures; seven of them, with an absolute majority. Only two and a half years ago, the PSOE won 28 seats and wo…