Ciudadanos, on PP: “If you can't keep your house clean, you can't clean up Spain”
Monday, February 1, 2016 @ 5:02 PM
ACTING president Mariano Rajoy (PP) appears to have lost the support of liberals Ciudadanos, the nearest party in terms of political values to the right-wing outfit which has governed Spain since November 2011.
In light of the recent string of corruption arrests, all of which involve current or former members of the PP or business owners they have dealt with in handing out public works contracts, Ciudadanos' leader Albert Rivera has said it is 'impossible' for Rajoy to 'lead a democratic regeneration'.
“Anyone who can't keep their house clean cannot clean up Spain either,” he states.
Having initially called for Pedro Sánchez, leader of the PP's nearest rival – the PSOE, or socialists – to abstain in the in-house voting round to allow Rajoy back into the president's seat, Ciudadanos now believes Sánchez should 'accept' the King's nomination to form a government if the Monarch gives this at tomorrow's (Tuesday's) meeting in the Zarzuela Palace.
King Felipe VI has already nominated Rajoy to form a government, since the PP won the most seats in December's general elections – 123 out of 350, although four members have since departed leaving them with 119 – but Rajoy turned this down, saying 'at the moment' he did not have enough support from other parties to attempt to be invested as the country's leader.
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