A Spanish left-wing party on
Thursday said it was preparing a no-confidence motion against the
current prime minister and requested that the other opposition
parties back the initiative.
Pablo Iglesias, the head of
Podemos, said in a press conference that the ruling conservative
Popular Party, led by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, was exhibiting
"parasitic" behavior in public institutions and removing it
from the government had become a civic and "ethical obligation."
"The corruption of the PP is
not a storm (that will pass), it is a virus that infects the
institutions of our country," Iglesias said. He added that the
move responded to a growing demand in Spanish society and had to do
with the "health of democracy" beyond party lines.
The move came after Rajoy was
summoned by Spain’s national court last Tuesday to testify as a
witness in a major corruption trial. It was the first time in Spain’s
modern history that a sitting prime minister was asked to take to the
stand in such a way.
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