Economics

Spain's Rajoy Vows to See Out His Term as Rivals Plot His Ouster

  • Ciudadanos says graft convictions make goverment unsustainable
  • Rajoy’s opponents still to agree on how to vote him out

Mariano Rajoy.

Photographer: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg
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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said he aims to see out the rest of his four-year term after the opposition called a vote of no-confidence in his scandal-plagued administration.

“As far as it’s in my power, it is evident that I want the legislature to last four years,” Rajoy said Friday at a televised press conference in Madrid. “That is good. It gives certainty, it gives security, it allows you to govern with a degree of calmness.”