Spain votes in close-run snap general election

Polling begins in Spain's general election as socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez seeks a fresh four-year mandate

Opinion polls show the election, which many candidates have painted as a ballot on the future of Spain, will likely produce a win for the centre-right People's Party, but to form a government it will need to partner with the far-right Vox - which would be the first time a far-right party had entered government since Francisco Franco's dictatorship ended in the 1970s.

It has warned such rights could be stripped back if the anti-feminist, family values-focused Vox is part of the next government.

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