Alasdair Fotheringham

An un­cer­tain fu­ture awaits Spain af­ter Par­tido Pop­u­lar per­formed worse than ex­pect­ed while the So­cial­ists re­bound­ed.

Spain goes to polls next Sun­day with no par­ty ex­pect­ed to se­cure an out­right ma­jor­i­ty in the 350-seat par­lia­ment.

Fi­nal opin­ion polls project that the right-wing PP par­ty will win a ma­jor­i­ty in a coali­tion with the far-right Vox.

Af­ter his par­ty’s se­vere loss­es in lo­cal polls, Spain’s prime min­is­ter brought for­ward the na­tion­al vote by four months.

Polls in­di­cate that Spain’s ul­tra­con­ser­v­a­tive par­ty could be­come the king­mak­er of the na­tion­al gov­ern­ment.

‘De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Mem­o­ry Laws’ bring some re­lief to fam­i­lies of Gen­er­al Fran­co’s vic­tims, but much needs to be done, they say.

Land­slide vic­to­ry of the Peo­ple’s Par­ty in An­dalu­sia’s re­gion­al vote leaves Spain’s rul­ing par­ty look­ing vul­ner­a­ble.

In­cum­bent PM’s So­cial­ist Par­ty is ex­pect­ed to win Sun­day’s snap polls, but the ab­solute ma­jor­i­ty re­mains elu­sive.

Por­tu­gal’s up­com­ing gen­er­al vote is ex­pect­ed to see the far-right Chega par­ty se­cure 10 times more seats than in 2019.

Refugees and the home­less live with­out elec­tric­i­ty or wa­ter where not long ago, mil­lion-dol­lar cars used to race.