No clear winner in Spain’s election after 100% of votes counted

No clear winner emerged in a nailbiting finish to Spain’s election on Sunday as the right failed to fulfill predictions of a victory big enough to push Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez from power.

The two leading parties will seek to negotiate coalition deals in pursuit of a governing majority but analysts warned the process could end in a hung parliament and another election.

With 100 percent of votes counted by 1:30 a.m. on Monday (2330 GMT), the opposition center-right People’s Party (PP) had 136 seats in parliament while Sanchez ruling Socialists (PSOE) had 122 seats.

 Spain’s prime minister is approved by the Congress of Deputies. A party needs to have the majority of seats (176) in the 350-seat parliament to appoint its nominee smoothly. Last time, it happened in 2011.