Spain`s Rajoy Wins Confidence Vote to be Prime Minister

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Spain's Prime Minister and Popular Party (PP) candidate Mariano Rajoy shows his identity card to a polling official before casting his vote in Spain's general election in Madrid, Spain, December 20, 2015. REUTERS/Sergio Perez

TEMPO.CO, Madrid - Spanish conservative leader Mariano Rajoy won a parliamentary vote to be prime minister on Saturday, ending 10 months of political gridlock that had left the country without a fully-functioning government.

Rajoy's centre-right People's Party is set to form a minority government, after gaining support from the smaller Ciudadanos ("Citizens") party and the tacit backing of many Socialist lawmakers who abstained in the confidence vote.

Rajoy needed to win a simply majority in parliament to cement his return to power. He got 170 "yes" votes while 111 lawmakers voted against him and 68 legislators abstained.

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