Spain's Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy presents new ministers in New Conservative Government
After Spain's Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy visited and informed the King Felipe VI late Thursday, he revealed the country's new composition of conservative Popular Party's government and the member of his Cabinet which continued with Soraya Saenz de Santamaria as deputy prime minister. He kept his economic team unchanged but he added several younger faces and set forth the two of his controversial ministers.
The main reason of what had up until Thursday was the presence of the party's secretary general and has now been appointed as defense minister, Maria Dolores de Cospedal. Cospedal is the second woman who serves as Spain's defense minister after Carme Chacon served in 2008 in the Socialist government of previous prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. According to EFE, the main opposition Socialist Party spokesperson, Mario Jimenez said that Rajoy's selection was not a government for dialogue.
The comment of the opposition didn't bode well for Rajoy's government that still needed to negotiate legislation in Parliament. The members of the new government served previously in the post or ministerial except for Alfonso Dastis who served Spain as the ambassador to the European Union and he is the new Minister of Foreign Affairs. The three ministers will remain to continue to lead the Spain's economic since 2011: Luis de Guindos as an economy minister, Maria Fatima Bañez as the ministry of labor and Cristobal Montoro in finance, according to Financial Times.
Hence, the continuity of Mr. De Guindo's will likely to look upon by investors in Brussels as he was seen as a reliable partner of the European Commission. Rajoy's government and his cabinet encounter the immediate challenge of passing a budget that meets the required target by the European commission. The Prime Minister is facing an intense pressure from the European commission about the 2017 budget Brussels needed Spain to bring next year deficit down to as much as 3.1% of GDP.
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