No party got a majority, so forming a government means some horse trading with parties further from the political center. Principal among them is Vaux, a youngish hard-right party which had been predicted to do better but horrified lots of voters. The Socialist Party leader Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez declared that those who had proposed a regression on rights and freedoms had failed. But how Spain moved forward from this mess of electoral maths is exceedingly unclear.
After no party won a majority, forming a government may take weeks—or another election. But predictions that Vox, a far-right party, might enter government failed to materialise. Russia’s navy is repainting its vessels in a bid to frustrate munitions powered by artificial intelligence (10:03). And why the push to invent outlandish ice-cream flavours such as ketchup is deeply misguided (17:59).
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