But the PP failed to deliver a knockout punch on their main rivals even as Sanchez has endured a year of complicated negotiations with Catalan nationalists and allegations of corruption against his wife that led him to consider stepping down.
“It is a clear victory for the PP, but not a crushing defeat for the PSOE,” said Pablo Simon, political scientist at Carlos III University in Madrid.
Sanchez congratulated his rivals early on Monday but celebrated his party’s results.
“The PSOE has become the only government option against the far-right wave sweeping Europe and Spain,” he said.
As Spain’s traditional parties gained in vote share, its parties on the hard left or right saw theirs diluted by competitors.
“Party is Over”, a new party of social media influencer Alvise Perez emerged as competition on the far right, gaining 4.5% of the vote on a campaign to stamp out corruption in politics, in what could emerge as a “reconfiguration of the right-of-the-PP space, as has already happened in other EU countries,” Madrid-based consultancy firm beBarlett wrote in a note.
On the far-left, the Socialists’ junior coalition partners Sumar saw some of their votes go to Podemos, another hard-left party that broke with Sumar after last year’s national election.
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