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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 2025. Prime Minister of Spain from 2011 to 2018 In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rajoy and the second or maternal family name is Brey. Mariano Rajoy Rajoy in 2018 Prime Minister of Spain In office 21 December 2011 – 1 June 2018 Monarchs Juan Carlos I Felipe VI Deputy ...
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.The PP's overall majority of 186 seats gave Rajoy a free hand to handle the country's political and economic situation for the next four years, attaining a parliamentary stability that his predecessor, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, had not enjoyed.
The first government of Mariano Rajoy was formed on 22 December 2011, following the latter's election as Prime Minister of Spain by the Congress of Deputies on 20 December and his swearing-in on 21 December, as a result of the People's Party (PP) emerging as the largest parliamentary force at the 2011 Spanish general election.
During the term of Rajoy, Carles Puigdemont declared the independence of Catalonia amid the 2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis and the 2017 Barcelona-Cambrils terrorist attacks. In May 2018, Mariano Rajoy was defeated in a no-confidence vote in parliament, meaning Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez took over as Spain's new prime minister. [4]
On 26 April 2024 and in a joint investigation, elDiario.es, El País and La Vanguardia newspapers revealed a plot by the PP, dating back to Mariano Rajoy's government in 2014, to spy and produce information on Sánchez's and Gómez's relatives to "politically kill him" by using Manos Limpias to present criminal charges.
Mariano Rajoy Elected President The 16th National Congress of the People's Party was held in Valencia from 20 to 22 June 2008, to renovate the governing bodies of the People's Party (PP) and establish the party's main lines of action and strategy for the next leadership term.
A motion of no confidence in the Spanish government of Mariano Rajoy was debated and voted in the Congress of Deputies between 31 May and 1 June 2018. It was brought by Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) leader Pedro Sánchez after the governing People's Party (PP) was found to have profited from the illegal kickbacks-for-contracts scheme of the Gürtel case in a court ruling made public ...
Rajoy and Fernández have two sons, Mariano and Juan, born 1999 and 2005. [2] Both were born in Barcelona. [3] [4] The family lived in Aravaca in the northwest of Madrid before moving into the Palace of Moncloa when Rajoy became prime minister. [3] Fernández was barely known to the public before Rajoy ran in the 2008 Spanish general election.