Spain held its third general election in four years on Sunday.... and more than three-quarters of the registered voters showed up to vote.<br />Our Hong Yoo has more on the election outcome. <br />Sunday's election resulted in a victory for the socialist PSOE party with 123 seats out of a total 350.<br />The mainstream conservative People's Party had a terrible night with their seats dwindling from 137 to 66.<br />The center-right Ciudadanos party has 57 seats, the left-wing Unidas Podemos has 35 seats, and the new far-right party Vox won 24 seats.<br />Even with the support of the left-wing Podemos party, the PSOE will need the help of pro-Catalan independence parties to form a government, as the two left-leaning parties are short of the necessary 176 for a majority. <br />"The only condition we are going to put is respecting the constitution and promoting social justice, towards coexistence and political transparency."<br />Voter turnout was at its highest since 2008 with 75-point-79 percent even though it was the third election in four years.<br />The PSOE's leader Pedro Sanchez had called this election after his government's fiscal plan was refused by rightwing parties and separatist Catalan parties in February.<br />Back then, Sanchez's government was criticized for not passively approaching the issue of Catalan independence and for being too beholden to the parties that helped him clinch power.<br />The highly polarized campaign for the 2019 general election was dominated by issues including national identity, gender equality and the future of Catalonia.<br />Spain is the only country in Western Europe that has never been governed by a coalition government.<br />Hong Yoo, Arirang News. <br />
