Mariano Rajoy: Spanish PM ousted in no-confidence vote

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has today been ousted in a no-confidence vote and will be replaced by socialist Pedro Sánchez.

MPs rose one-by-one to cast their vote in a motion that was triggered by a long-running corruption trial involving members of his centre-right party.

Pro-European Sánchez becomes Spain's seventh prime minister since its return to democracy in the 1970s.

The vote saw 180 MPs vote in favour of the no-confidence motion in Rajoy, with 169 against and one abstention.

SOURCE: euronews
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