With opinion polls and bookmakers suggesting a high chance of another hung parliament, all the parties will be thinking carefully over the next few months about the possibility of alliances with one or even two of their rivals.
Russia has new possibilities of alliance if not friendships.
Many analysts predict the PP will join forces with Ciudadanos to govern, with Rajoy hinting earlier this week that his party would be open to the possibility of an alliance to prevent a coalition between leftist parties.
Congress then sent him to France as a secret agent to obtain financial and military assistance and to investigate the possibility of an alliance.
The Getty's contribution raised speculation in the art world of the possibility of an alliance, or more, between the two institutions.
Landlord groups have carefully courted Mr. Espada, starting last fall after he defeated an incumbent Democratic senator but refused to pledge his support for Mr. Smith, leaving open the possibility of an alliance with Republicans.
A Corbyn victory could open up the possibility of an alliance, within and beyond the Labour party, between post-austerity economic thinking, democratic and community renewal, and social and civil libertarianism, and thereby regenerate the social-democratic project.
Discussions will range across the Russian advance in Ukraine and expansionist threat to the Baltics, the Nato withdrawal from Afghanistan next year, the possibility of wider alliance air strikes in northern Iraq against Islamic State (Isis), the need for Nato to produce a viable rapid reaction force in Europe as well as respond to the threats of hybrid warfare and terrorism.
Is there a possibility of an alliance between the state owned company and the private company?
They did this by thinking outside the box, evaluating the possibility of an alliance or a merger.
Liberty's purchase of the UPC stake raises the possibility of an alliance between Telewest and UPC.
