Spanish prime minister may be ousted

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National News

May 30, 2018 - 11:00 PM

Mariano Rajoy

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s opposition Socialists tried to persuade smaller parties to support the ouster of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s conservative government as a tense parliamentary debate opened Thursday on their no-confidence motion.

To secure the votes needed to replace Rajoy, Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez promised to uphold a recently negotiated national budget that includes substantial benefits for Basque nationalists and vowed to open dialogue with separatists in the new Catalan government.

Backing from nationalist lawmakers would give enough votes.

He urged the prime minister to step down over the court fine imposed on Rajoy’s Popular Party last week as a beneficiary of a large kickbacks-for-contracts scheme.

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