{"id":40243,"date":"2019-07-25T14:23:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T14:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40243"},"modified":"2019-07-25T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T14:23:03","slug":"spains-pedro-sanchez-loses-vote-to-be-confirmed-as-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40243","title":{"rendered":"Spain&#8217;s Pedro Sanchez loses vote to be confirmed as PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"80.4672897196\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/spain.html\">Spain<\/a>&#8216;s acting Prime Minister <a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/06\/pedro-sanchez-rise-challenges-180601133008815.html\">Pedro Sanchez<\/a> has lost\u00a0a parliamentary vote of confidence after talks with the far-left to form a coalition government failed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Apart from the 123 lawmakers of his Socialist party, just one other deputy from a regional grouping voted for Sanchez, leaving him far short of the simple majority he needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">After weeks of acrimonious negotiations, Sanchez failed to win the support of the far-left Unidas Podemos, raising the possibility of a repeat election.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez&#8217;s Socialists, which won the most seats in an April election but fell short of a majority, have until late September to attempt further confirmation votes in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>If they don&#8217;t seek other confirmation votes or if they are unsuccessful, a new election will be held on November 10, Spain&#8217;s fourth in as many years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very sorry to note that parliament remains blocked,&#8221; the socialist prime minister told the parliament on Wednesday. &#8220;A\u00a0deal wasn&#8217;t possible.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain&#8217;s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has lost\u00a0a parliamentary vote of confidence after talks with the far-left to form a coalition government failed. Apart from the 123 lawmakers of his Socialist party, just one other deputy from a regional grouping voted for Sanchez, leaving him far short of the simple majority he needed. After weeks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}