Spanish Prime Minister Survives Confidence Vote Proposal

The Spanish Parliament rejected a proposal to withdraw confidence from the leftist government on Wednesday, with a significant majority, which was put forward by the far-right Vox party, led by Santiago Abascal. Only one deputy from the center-right Citizens party supported the proposal alongside 52 deputies from Vox, while 201 deputies voted against it in the 350-seat Parliament, and 91, mostly from the conservative Popular Party, abstained from voting. Vox had called for a vote of no confidence against the leftist government in an attempt to oust Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, which caused a significant split within the party, the third-largest in Parliament after Sánchez's Socialist Workers' Party and the Popular Party.