Spain: MP’s voting error on key labour reform sparks political storm
Euronews says a conservative MP’s bizarre voting error, which allowed the left-wing government to save its labour market reform at the last minute, caused a political storm in Spain on Friday, with the opposition considering taking the matter to court.
An “abuse of power” and an “unforgivable democratic error”: this is how the right-wing Popular Party described the vote that allowed the Spanish Congress to validate this emblematic text on Thursday, by 175 votes to 174.
In a letter published on Friday, Casero said that he had been told that he would not be allowed to vote for the reform, but that he wanted to vote against it.
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