Spain’s Interior Ministry says turnout for Sunday’s national election so far is 4% higher than the previous ballot.
The ministry says, as of 2 p.m. (1200 GMT), 41.5% of all eligible voters have already cast their ballots Sunday, up from 36.9% at the same time in the 2016 election.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist party is favored to get the most votes, but it is expected to fall far short of a majority. The right-wing in Spain, long dominated by the conservative Popular Party, has now split into three groups, including the Citizens party and the far-right nationalist Vox party.
The uncertain outcome includes the likelihood that a far-right party could enter Parliament for the first time since the 1980s.
Polls close at 8 p.m. for the nearly 37 million Spaniards allowed to vote.
— AP
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