Spain's acting PM Rajoy loses second confidence vote

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Spain's acting PM Rajoy loses second confidence vote

 

 

Spain’s acting prime minister Mariano Rajoy has failed in a second attempt to win parliament’s backing to form a government, plunging the country into uncertainty.

 

Voters now face the prospect of a third election in a year if no deal can be brokered in the next two months.

 

The parliament rejected his candidacy by the same margin of 180 votes against him as a first vote on Wednesday, after he failed to persuade the Socialists to abstain.

 

In a speeches ahead of the vote both sides accused one another of prolonging the deadlock. Rajoy warned that leaving the country without a government has costs, adding that it will be Spaniards who footed the bill.

 

The stalemate threatens to dent Spain’s three-year economic rebound, and the country must draw up a fiscal plan for the European Commission by mid-October.

 

Spain has been left without a government since December’s inconclusive elections, with new parties Podemos and Cuidadanos taking millions of votes from the establishment parties.

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-09-03

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9 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Rajoy warned that leaving the country without a government has costs, adding that it will be Spaniards who footed the bill.

Leaving the country with a government also has costs, and guess who will foot that bill too...