November 2019 Spanish general election

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A general election was held in Spain on 10 November 2019 to elect the members of the 14th Cortes Generales under the Spanish Constitution of 1978. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 265 seats in the Senate. It was a repeat election under the provisions of Article 99.5 of the Constitution, as a result of the failure in government formation negotiations following the previous general election. The April 2019 election had seen the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) becoming the only party that could realistically form a government. Overconfidence after the local, regional and European Parliament elections in May, political differences, and disagreements over ministerial posts with Pablo Iglesias's Unidas Podemos, thwarted Pedro Sánchez's re-election bid as prime minister of Spain in July. With no further negotiations during the summer and into September, King Felipe VI declined to nominate any candidate for investiture, leading to a fresh...

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