Sanchez Socialists Claim Turnaround as Spain’s Far Right Falters

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez during the closing of the PSOE campaign, in Valladolid, Castile and León, on March 13. — Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez during the closing of the PSOE campaign, in Valladolid, Castile and León, on March 13.
Photographer: Claudia Alba/Europa Press/Getty Images

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By Daniel Basteiro

March 16, 2026 at 10:17 AM UTC

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists posted unexpected gains in a regional ballot that halted what had seemed to be an unstoppable rise for the far right.