Spain Goes to Polls as Conservatives Eye Ousting Sanchez
- Opposition‘s Alberto Nunez Feijoo is frontrunner, polls show
- Voter turnout trails off as day wears on, temperatures climb
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Spaniards are voting Sunday in stifling summer heat, with the conservative opposition clear frontrunners but likely needing to forge a coalition with the far right to govern.
Alberto Nunez Feijoo, the opposition leader, is banking on voters having tired of five years of contentious gender policies and Madrid’s ties with regional separatists in Catalonia and the Basque Country to help move him into the government’s Moncloa palace.