Madrid: Spain has entered uncharted political territory after Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy lost his majority in an election that saw voters shift allegiance to new groups at the expense of the two main parties. Mr Rajoy's conservative People's Party lost a third of its MPs even as it beat its main Socialist Party rivals to take the most votes and earn the first shot at forging a government. With Spanish voters rewarding newcomers from anti-austerity leftists Podemos and the liberal Ciudadanos party, who between them took 109 seats in the 350-member parliament, no clear governing majority emerged from Sunday's ballot. "The field is really open," said...
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