MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Spain’s ruling People’s Party (PP) has won the Sunday general elections, getting 123 seats in the country’s parliament and 28.72 percent of the popular vote after over 99 percent of all votes have been counted. PP failed to win parliamentary majority. Podemos got 69 seats representing 20.62 percent of the votes.
"A new political stage is beginning in our country. Spain voted to change the system. A new Spain… was born today," Iglesias told journalists late Sunday.
The left-wing political party Podemos, founded in 2014, is the second largest Spanish party by number of members after the People's Party and currently has over 350,000 members.
Part of its party platform calls for renegotiating unpopular austerity measures that the European Union forced the Spanish government to adopt in 2012.
