Please help me on this question im stuck on it :(

c) legal battles last five weeks after the election due to the narrow victory in several states.

i believe it was spain

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire

i believe the answer is a