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Spain’s ruling Socialists forging ahead
The polls on three Spanish television stations gave Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s Socialist Party between 163 and 176 seats in the 350-member parliament against 145 and 152 for the conservative opposition Popular Party (PP).
Official results are expected later on Sunday.
The result could force the Socialists -- who were 12 seats short of an absolute majority in the previous legislature -- to forge uncomfortable alliances with smaller regional nationalist parties to pass legislation.—AFP
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