28 May, 2018 @ 13:07
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No confidence vote for Spain’s Mariano Rajoy to be held THIS WEEK

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Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy was Spain's first ever to appear in court
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A VOTE of no confidence for Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will be held this week.

The PSOE’s motion against the Partido Popular leader will be debated in Congress on Thursday before a vote takes place on Friday.

Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez will be the proposed replacement candidate for Prime Minister.

The PP has been plagued by a string of corruption cases in recent months.

Last week saw mostly PP leaders involved in the Gurtel corruption ring convicted of a combined 351 years behind bars.

Rajoy denied any wrongdoing when he became the first sitting prime minister in Spain’s history to testify in a criminal case.

 

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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