30 May, 2018 @ 16:21
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Spain ‘will probably have new prime minister’ by Friday, sources claim

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IN DEEP WATER: Rajoy
RAJOY: Under fire

THE PSOE are close to having the votes they need to oust Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy at this Friday’s no-confidence vote. 

Separatist MPs in Catalunya are likely to side with the Socialists when its leadership meets in Barcelona tonight.

According to people close to the discussions, Basque Nationalists are planning to follow the lead of the Catalans when they decide which way they will swing on Thursday morning.

If both join the PSOE in voting to remove Rajoy, they will join left-wing Podemos and have enough votes for Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez to take power.

A source told press PP leaders are starting to see defeat as the most likely outcome.

The only scenario in which the Basques would not join the PSOE would be if the Catalan separatists backed away at the last minute.

A person close to the Catalans’ leadership said such a decision was very unlikely, even though the outcome hasn’t been set in stone.

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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