Spain has gone to the polls and, as expected, the two established parties have gotten a routing from the voters. The center-right Popular Party (PP) of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who led a pro-austerity government, lost almost 16 percent of the vote, while the center-left Socialist Party (PSOE) lost almost seven percent, despite being in opposition and coming of a historic loss in 2011. The big winners are two newcomers, the radical left Podemos (We Can), who won roughly 20 percent, if one includes all regional coalitions it participated in, and the centrist Citizens (Cs), whose 14 percent was well below expectations.
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