Madrid_ The social democratic politician Pedro Sanchez promised today his position as the new president of the Government of Spain before King Felipe VI, after the dismissal of the conservative Mariano Rajoy by the Congress of Deputies, Prensa Latina reports.
In a ceremony at the Palacio de la Zarzuela, headquarters of the head of state, Sanchez officially became this Saturday the seventh leader of Spanish democracy, a day after unseating his predecessor through a motion of no confidence.
The leader of the main opposition party, the Spanish Socialist Workers (PSOE), won the day before the parliamentary support necessary to take forward his initiative against Rajoy, cornered by the corruption scandals that mark the Popular Party (PP).
In the presence of the outgoing ruler, Sanchez took possession with the right hand over the Constitution and not over the bible, opting for the withdrawal of the religious symbols that traditionally presided over this act.
Rajoy, whose second term began in 2016, was deposed by the lower house, which by an overwhelming majority -180 of its 350 seats-approved a no-confidence motion against him on Monday, after multiple cases of corruption in the right-wing PP.
It was precisely these corrupt plots, in addition to their mismanagement of the secessionist conflict in Catalonia that precipitated the fall of the 63-year-old politician, who arrived in 2011 for the first time at the first magistracy, after two failed previous attempts.
"Resign, Mr. Rajoy, and everything will end, you can leave the presidency by your own decision," said Sanchez to defend the PSOE proposal to evict him from the government Palace of La Moncloa.
It is the first time, in almost 40 years of Spanish democracy, that a motion of censure has prospered in the Congress, after four such initiatives were presented during that time, two of them against the already defenestrated chief executive.
Sanchez stressed that the motion of the Social Democrats emerged from the inability of Rajoy to assume political responsibilities after the ruling of the Gürtel case, which, he warned, in other democracies would have precipitated his resignation. The general secretary of the centennial PSOE referred to the resolution of the well-known cause, considered one of the greatest corruption schemes in the recent history of the European country.
The devastating ruling sentenced on May 24 to penalties amounting to 351 years in prison to 29 of the 37 accused in the trial by a network of financing, payments and illegal adjudications, which splashed to a dozen former senior officials of the former ruling formation .
The verdict concluded that the activity of the aforementioned plot produced 'quantifiable benefits to the Popular Party', and considered that the conservative formation 'must be condemned as a lucrative participant'.
In addition, he credited the existence of a parallel accounting or 'box B' within the PP, through which he illegally financed acts and electoral campaigns.
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