Spain may be inching closer to new elections in November after acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez lost a second parliamentary vote to be confirmed on the job after his party failed to secure a deal with the left-wing Podemos, APA reports citing Euronews.
Spanish MPs rejected appointing Sanchez as prime minister in the first and second poll on Tuesday and Thursday. Sanchez required an absolute majority from parliament in the first vote, however, in the second one, he only required a simple majority.
"A deal wasn't possible," Sanchez told MPs, before adding: "I want to be Spain's prime minister, but not at any cost." Sanchez strongly criticized the way Podemos and its leader Pablo Iglesias had conducted the talks.
Sanchez failed to strike a deal with Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias because they couldn't decide what role Podemos would play in a possible coalition government.
The Podemos leader said, however, that his party would still like to be part of the government and would like to negotiate further.
Sanchez has only been the country's leader in an acting capacity since April after failing to win a majority in the Spanish general election.
He first became prime minister of a minority government in June last year when parliament voted out a conservative government over a corruption scandal.
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