MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's conservative People's Party elected Alberto Nuñez Feijoo as its new leader on Saturday in the hope of winning back voters from a growing far right and firming up its increasingly shaky position as the country's main opposition force.
Feijoo, who won 98.35% of the vote, was the only candidate to lead the PP after an internal scandal brought down previous leader Pablo Casado and tipped the party, which for decades traded power with the incumbent Socialists, into crisis.
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