Resounding win for Spain’s conservatives

MADRID: Spain’s conservative People’s Party (PP) said yesterday that its resounding win in Madrid in regional elections signalled “the beginning of the end” for Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s government.

However, Sanchez’s mandate runs for two more years and analysts said there was little incentive for him to hold an early national election.

The Madrid region’s incumbent leader, the PP’s Isabel Diaz Ayuso, won re-election elections boosted by her refusal to close down bars and shops during the Covid-19 pandemic. The PP does not have enough MPs in the national parliament to force Sanchez to call a snap election.