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Global News Podcast

Spain's Conservatives claim election victory

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Popular Party falls short of forming a majority, however, after a poor performance by its far-right allies. Also: Last-ditch talks are held in Israel ahead of a parliamentary vote on controversial judicial reforms that have caused months of widespread protests. And Netflix releases its first original African animation series, Supa Team 4.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.0

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

0:06.1

This edition has published in the early hours of Monday, the 24th of July.

0:09.9

The Conservative People's Party in Spain has claimed victory in the general election,

0:14.4

but it may not be able to form a government after its far-right allies' vox did badly.

0:19.9

More protests and last ditch talks in Israel ahead of a parliamentary vote on controversial plans

0:24.8

to curb the power of the courts.

0:27.2

And the US TV weatherman who quit his job after receiving death threats for reporting on climate change.

0:35.3

Also in the podcast, no let up in the fighting in Sudan,

0:38.7

100 days after the conflict began.

0:41.6

And later.

0:49.7

Netflix releases its first ever original African animation series.

0:57.7

Will the far-right enter government in Spain for the first time since the Franco-dictatorship

1:03.8

ended nearly half a century ago?

1:05.9

Well, that had seemed eminently possible before Sunday's election.

1:10.2

But with the results in, it is looking a lot less likely.

1:13.9

As expected, the Conservative Popular Party won the largest number of seats to the delight of its supporters.

1:27.0

But the party's far-right allies' vox did badly, losing a third of their seats.

1:35.3

And so the right-wing block overall is short of a majority.

1:39.6

Nevertheless, the Popular Party leader Alberto Nguyenieth Fého says he will try to form a government.

1:46.8

But he has fewer natural allies than the current Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez,

1:52.0

whose party did better than expected.

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