{"id":1050707,"date":"2026-06-26T05:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1050707\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T05:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:43:17","slug":"spains-lower-house-calls-on-pm-sanchez-to-resign-over-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1050707\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain’s lower house calls on PM Sanchez to resign over corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fragmented lower house of the Spanish parliament<\/a> on Thursday passed a non-binding resolution urging Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to resign due to a slew of corruption scandals hounding his center-left Socialist Party and inner circle.<\/p>\n

A separate article urged Sanchez to submit to a motion of confidence if he does not call a snap election. The opposition can submit a motion of no confidence, but it has so far abstained from doing so as it lacks the required votes to pass it.<\/p>\n

Only Sanchez has the power to decide whether there is a motion of confidence, and on Wednesday Sanchez<\/a> again told parliament he planned to stay on as premier, denying widespread corruption.<\/p>\n

The motion says the mounting number of investigations into corruption cases involving political figures appointed and directly supported by Sanchez requires that he take responsibility by resigning.<\/p>\n

Supporting the resolution were the main opposition People’s Party (PP), their far-right allies Vox, as well as the pro-Catalan<\/a> independence party Junts, which traditionally opposes the two unionist parties.<\/p>\n

Junts’ support was instrumental in allowing Sanchez to win another term as premier in 2023, but Junts announced last October it would no longer back the government’s<\/a> legislation.<\/p>\n

Justice Minister Felix Bola\u00f1os dismissed the vote as purely symbolic, with “zero political effect.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fragmented lower house of the Spanish parliament on Thursday passed a non-binding resolution urging Prime Minister Pedro…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1050708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[7706,2575,2000,299,1234,5338,104,288673],"class_list":["post-1050707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-catalonia","tag-corruption","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-government","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-spain","tag-spanish-justice-ministry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116814820577106324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}