Spain Conservatives Win Local Election as Socialists Retreat
Alberto Nuñez Feijoo speaks during the closing of the PP election campaign in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Feb. 16.
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Spain’s strongest opposition party comfortably won Galicia’s regional election, while Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists lost about a third of its seats in the first electoral test since he sought an amnesty for Catalan separatists.
The conservative People’s Party took 40 seats in the 75-member legislature on Sunday, retaining control of a region it’s governed since 2009. The left-wing Galician nationalist group BNG came in second with 25 seats, while Sanchez’s Socialist party finished third with nine with 98% of ballots counted.