MADRID – Spain’s Socialists have reached a preliminary agreement with the far-left Podemos party to form a coalition government following Sunday’s election, a senior Socialist source said Tuesday.
The election — the country’s fourth in four years — left Spain’s parliament even more fragmented than a previous ballot in April, with the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) retaining its lead but further away from a majority.
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