By Prensa Latina
Madrid : Spain announced the results Monday of 99.9 percent of the votes in Sunday’s general elections that re-elected Socialist leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero for a another four years.
The Spanish Socialist Labor Party (PSOE) won 11.64 million votes (43.64 percent) and 169 seats in the 350-seat legislature, five more than the previous elections but not enough to become majority.
Conservative Partido Popular (PP) of Mariano Rajoy scored 10.1 million votes (40.11 percent) and increased its 148 legislative seats to 153.
As third political force, Convergencia y Union de Catalunya garnered 774,317 votes (3.05 percent) and earned 11 seats.
The other seats went to the Basque Nationalists (6), Ezquerra Republicana (3), Izquierda Unida (2), Bloque Nacionalista Gallego (2), Coalicion Canaria (2), Union, Progreso y Democracia (1) and Nafarroa Bai (1).
Abstention was 25 percent of the over 35 million registered voters.