Socialists Win Barcelona Mayorship With Help of Conservative Party in Boost for Spain's Prime Minister

Barcelona's city council appointed a new Socialist mayor after a deal involving two rival parties.
The decision was a boost for the Socialist Party, which leads the national government, after mostly poor results in local elections around the country on May 28.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's Socialists won the mayor's office of Barcelona in a tight vote at city hall.
The win comes after the PSOE took a beating in local and regional elections in May.
Sánchez responded to the electoral thumping his party took in May by immediately calling a national election for July 23.