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Mariano Rajoy Brey (Galician: [maɾiˈanʊ raˈʃoj], Spanish: [maˈɾjano raˈxoj]; born 27 March 1955) is a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 2011 to 2018, when a vote of no confidence ousted his government.
May 20, 2024 · Mariano Rajoy, Spanish politician who served as prime minister of Spain from 2011 to 2018. He took office amid the European debt crisis and implemented harsh but effective austerity measures. A corruption scandal involving his party’s misuse of campaign funds led to his removal by a vote of no confidence.
Mariano Rajoy became Prime Minister of Spain on 20 December 2011, after his People's Party 's (PP) landslide victory in the 2011 general election.
May 24, 2018 · MADRID — Spain’s High Court convicted 29 people, including former senior officials of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s Popular Party (PP), and sentenced them to a total of 351 years in prison on Thursday in one of the country’s biggest corruption scandals in modern history.
Jun 1, 2018 · Mariano Rajoy was the patient man of Spanish politics, rewarded in 2011 at his third attempt to lead the conservative Popular Party (PP) to victory in a general election....
Jan 15, 2013 · In his first year in office, Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, has at times resembled a latter-day Saint Sebastian. Assailed on all sides – by a meltdown in the banking sector, soaring...
Former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, in the Supreme Court, blamed Catalan separatist leaders for violence during the 2017 independence referendum.
Jun 1, 2018 · 5 takeaways from the overthrow of Mariano Rajoy. The new prime minister will have an even weaker minority government than his predecessor, but won’t be in a hurry to call elections.
Feb 12, 2017 · MADRID — Written off more than a few times in his long career, Mariano Rajoy is suddenly the unrivaled big man of Spanish politics, uniting the conservatives just as his leftist opponents bicker and bleed support.
Nov 11, 2022 · Editorial: In the wake of the corruption verdicts in the Gürtel affair it was time for Mariano Rajoy to leave the stage. The new socialist government in Madrid has a big opportunity
