BBC - December 20, 2015
Spaniards are to go to the polls in a landmark election that will see more than two parties compete for power for the first time in decades. Newcomers Podemos, an anti-austerity party, and Citizens, a liberal party, are challenging the ruling Popular Party (PP) and the Socialists. Opinion polls have put Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's PP narrowly ahead. While he has been in power, Spain has emerged from a financial crisis into a period of economic growth. The conservative PP currently has a majority in Spain's lower house of parliament. However, the BBC's Tom Burridge in Madrid says both Podemos and Citizens look set to take a take a large chunk of the vote, ending the power monopoly of Spain's traditional heavyweights. It is almost certain that no party will get a majority of MPs in the parliament, our correspondent says, meaning some form of coalition will have to be agreed before a government can be formed.
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