Brexit could play a part as Spain heads for polls again

Madrid

JUST days after a shock "Brexit", Spaniards started voting in repeat elections on Sunday to decide if they too want a radical change as promised by a far-left coalition led by Podemos.

The polls, which opened under a generally blue sky nationwide, are pitting voters hungry for change in a country with sky-high unemployment against those who fear that this change would worsen the situation for Spain, which was on the brink of collapse just a few years ago.

Britain's surprise vote to leave the European Union has further exacerbated this cleavage, with the outgoing conservative Popular Party (PP) insisting on the need for "stability" in the face of "radicalism" and "populism", in a thinly-veiled …