Voting under way as Spain holds early general election

A woman casts her ballot at a polling station (Alvaro Barrientos/AP)

Polling began in Spain in a general election that could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the political right.

Prime minister Pedro Sanchez called the early election after his Spanish Socialist Workers Party and its far-left partner, Unidas Podemos, took a severe beating in local and regional elections in May.