Spain could get right-wing government, survey suggests

Right-of-center parties could win enough votes to oust Spain's Socialist government in April's snap election, according to a survey published Saturday by El País.

The survey, looking at an average of recent polls, found that while the Socialists would take the largest share of the vote with 24 percent, the combined score of the Popular Party, the liberal Ciudadanos party and the far-right Vox would tip the scale in favor of a right-wing government.

Those three political groupings are forecast to receive 21 percent, 18 percent and 11 percent, respectively.

However, the results also indicate that there is a chance that Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez could rally left-wing voters and form his own coalition with the far-left Podemos, which is estimated to take 15 percent of the votes.

Spaniards head to the polls on April 28, marking the third time elections have been held in Spain since December 2015.

Sánchez called the snap election earlier this week after parliament rejected the government's 2019 budget proposal.

Sánchez came to power in June 2018 after his predecessor Mariano Rajoy was removed by a vote of no confidence. His eight-month-old government will become the shortest in Spain's modern history as a democracy.