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Spain Socialist Leader fails to form govt.

Saturday, 05 March 2016 11:23 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 08 March 2016 9:01 AM ]

Leader of Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) and candidate for Prime President, Pedro Sanchez looks on from his seat at Las Cortes in Madrid, on March 4, 2016. AFP

Daniela Sepulveda

Press TV, Madrid

Spain's political stalemate persists as Pedro Sanchez failed to form a government in the second and final congressional voting session. He only managed to win the support of his own Socialist Party and center-right Ciudadanos. For the first time in Spain's history, parties will now go back to the negotiating table for the next two months. Press TV correspondent Daniela Sepulveda has the story:

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