Madrid, The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) would be the most voted force in the general elections on April 28 with 31.1 percent of citizen's support, according to a poll published in the newspaper ABC today, Prensa Latina reports.

The survey, carried out by the firm GAD3 for the conservative newspaper, showed that the PSOE would win 137-139 seats in the Congress of Deputies, quite below the absolute majority to rule alone, which is 176 of 350 seats.

However, the socialist leader Pedro Sanchez might be reelected president of the Government if he succeeds in establishing an alliance with the left-wing Unidas Podemos, which would win 11.5 percent of votes and 28-30 seats, and other small parties.

A hypothetical coalition among the three right-wing parties - the Popular Party (PP), Ciudadanos and Vox - would be far from the 176 seats needed to control the Lower House, according to the poll, which was carried out among 3,900 citizens from March 26 to April 4.

Sanchez would remain in the Moncloa Palace if, in addition to Unidas Podemos, he is supported by the Basque and Catalonian parties, the same political forces that took him to office on June 1, after a successful motion of no confidence against the PP.

All surveys published so far have shown the current fragmentation of the political system in Spain, after four decades during which the PSOE and the PP took turns in office, a situation that is known as Spanish bipartisanship.

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