Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez steps out to welcome Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar (not pictured) at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain, June 14, 2018. REUTERS/Susana Vera
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's new Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday said he was unlikely to call a snap election and that he wanted to hold the next countrywide vote in 2020 when the current term is scheduled to end.
Sanchez, who toppled his conservative predecessor Mariano Rajoy last month in a confidence vote, controls less than a quarter of the seats in the parliament and he had been until now widely expected to call a general election in the next months.
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