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Madrid - 2 February 2016
1. Pedro Sanchez, leader of Spain's Socialist Party arriving at news conference
2. Sanchez at news conference
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Pedro Sanchez, Leader of Socialist Party:
"I appear before you after King Felipe VI asked me to try and form a government and after the leader of parliament told me this personally and then later in a declaration to the press."
4. Sanchez taking questions
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Pedro Sanchez, Leader of Socialist Party:
"So as we, as I have announced the Socialist Party assumes the responsibility to Spain. We assume our responsibility with Spain and Spaniards so that we can have a government 40 days after the elections. Secondly, to be able to govern with dialogue and politics which benefit the majority."
6. News conference
7. Sanchez leaving news conference
STORYLINE:
Spain's Socialist Party leader, Pedro Sanchez, accepted King Felipe VI's request to try to form a government on Tuesday, following December's inconclusive election.
In December's election the country's conservative Popular Party came in first but failed in more than a month of efforts to drum up enough support for a coalition or a minority government.
Sanchez said that King Felipe asked him on Tuesday after meeting with both him and acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who heads the Popular Party.
Sanchez must now try to negotiate with two new upstart parties who made big inroads with voters upset with austerity, high unemployment and official corruption.
The Popular Party and the Socialists have alternately ruled Spain for decades, but far-left Podemos came in third in the Decmber election and the business-friendly Ciudadanos came in fourth.
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