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Spain's People's Party candidate Pablo Casado attends an electoral campaign closing rally in Madrid, Spain April 26, 2019. It's the third time since December 2015 that Spaniards are going to the polls.Opinion polls estimate that outgoing Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will win but his Socialist Party won't get a majority, far from it.
The instability that now governs Spanish politics harkens back to the 2015 elections that marked the end of a two-party system with the eruption of Podemos and Ciudadanos.New elections were held in June 2016, with PP leader Mariano Rajoy finally taking power in October at the head of a minority government.
In February, days after the start of a highly-anticipated trial of Catalan leaders over the 2017 secession attempt, pro-independence lawmakers forced Sanchez into calling early elections by refusing to back his 2019 budget.
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