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PM Pedro Sánchez must approve an amnesty in exchange for nationalist support.

Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, a founding member, marginalised by hardliners close to party leader

The Popular Party leader got the most votes in the election but lacks the support needed to form a government.

The Socialist may remain prime minister if he can cobble together enough support from wildly different political groups.

A general election will be held in Spain on the 23rd, according to the latest poll. The focus is on whether to form a coalition with far-right parties that oppose the expansion of LGBT and other rights and advocate anti-immigrant in order to take power. This is the first time a far- right party has come to power in Spain, since the Franco dictatorship that lasted until the 350s. It has been pointed out that the KMT alone cannot reach a majority in the House of Representatives.

Sunday’s vote could usher the far right into government … or make Spain the Belgium of the south.

Movements from traditionally neglected provinces could hold the key to the next government.

The country could see a far right party enter government for the first time since the 1949-1975 Franco dictatorship.

Polls suggest that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, the Socialist leader, will be ousted by conservatives who have made hay of his reliance on allies who have tried to secede from Spain.

Yolanda Díaz set up her Sumar coalition to fend off the far right in this month’s election, but polls show she has a staggering amount of work to do