Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, is poised to be ousted from office after a Basque party on Thursday gave its decisive support to a no-confidence motion over a corruption case, making it all but certain to succeed.
The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) said its five lawmakers would vote against Rajoy. This gives the main opposition Socialist party, which filed the motion, the absolute majority of 176 votes needed for it to pass in a vote scheduled Friday.
“We think that we’re responding to what most Basque citizens want… by voting yes” to the motion, Aitor Esteban of the PNV said during a pre-vote debate at the lower house of parliament.
The Socialists filed the motion last week after a court said it had uncovered a vast system of bribes given to former officials of Rajoy’s Popular Party (PP) in exchange for lucrative public…
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