Unidas Podemos (UP) leader Iglesias could.....>

SPAIN: Unidas Podemos (UP) leader Iglesias could be offered position of Deputy

Prime Minister in a gov't with PM Pedro Sanchez's Socialists (PSOE).

- Combining PSOE and UP's seats combined gives 155 out of 350, 21 short of the

176 required for a majority. 

- If PSOE-UP can get support of all regionalist parties excluding Catalans and

Basque separatists, they would be 4 seats short of a majority. 

- Options would then be:

- Bring in Basque separatist EH Bildu (Basque Country Unite). Seen as at the

more extreme end of Basque parties. Its forerunners believed to have links to

terrorist group ETA. 

- Bring in Catalan party/parties. Would require major concession from gov't on

independence. UP the most amenable to Catalan independence of any major party,

and gov't could provide Catalonia with greater autonomy/funding to gain support.

- Bring in liberal centrist Citizens. Citizens reduced to 10 seats, may see

supporting a gov't, even one it disagrees with, as less risky than facing

electorate again.