Vox and the Possibility of a Grand Coalition in Spain

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Lane: Spain is moving back towards the center with both big centrist parties gaining lots of support this time and together having their best result in quite a long time. Lane: This is not some inevitable rise of the far right in Spain following everywhere else. But it seems like Vox has a ceiling and we've seen it hit and then fall back from that ceiling, he says.

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