{"id":165683,"date":"2018-05-31T04:13:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T08:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=165683"},"modified":"2018-05-31T04:13:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T08:13:55","slug":"spains-conservative-leader-faces-no-confidence-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/31\/spains-conservative-leader-faces-no-confidence-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain&#8217;s conservative leader faces no confidence vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_125722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125722\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mariano-Rajoy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-125722\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mariano-Rajoy.jpg\" alt=\"Rajoy refused to resign after his conservative Popular Party was fined as beneficiary of a large kickbacks-for-contracts scheme. In a damaging ruling last week, the court questioned Rajoy's claim that he and other top officials were unaware of the party's illegal accounting. (Photo by FDV - Own work, Public Domain)\" width=\"800\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mariano-Rajoy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mariano-Rajoy-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mariano-Rajoy-768x652.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-125722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rajoy refused to resign after his conservative Popular Party was fined as beneficiary of a large kickbacks-for-contracts scheme. In a damaging ruling last week, the court questioned Rajoy&#8217;s claim that he and other top officials were unaware of the party&#8217;s illegal accounting. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=1428977\">(Photo by FDV &#8211; Own work, Public Domain)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MADRID &#8211; The Spanish parliament&#8217;s lower house is debating whether to end Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy&#8217;s nearly eight years in power and replace him with the leader of the Socialist opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Rajoy refused to resign after his conservative Popular Party was fined as beneficiary of a large kickbacks-for-contracts scheme. In a damaging ruling last week, the court questioned Rajoy&#8217;s claim that he and other top officials were unaware of the party&#8217;s illegal accounting.<\/p>\n<p>Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez, who is leading the no-confidence vote against Rajoy, would instantly become the country&#8217;s prime minister if he wins 176 or more votes in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>His opening speech Thursday proposing an alternative government will be watched by other opposition lawmakers who are still undecided on whether to oust the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID &#8211; The Spanish parliament&#8217;s lower house is debating whether to end Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy&#8217;s nearly eight years in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":125722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[51504,33923],"class_list":["post-165683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-prime-minister-mariano-rajoy","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}