Cabinet Rajoy II

Cabinet Rajoy II
Prime Minister	Mariano Rajoy
choice	2016
Legislative period	12.
education	October 31, 2016
The End	June 1, 2018
Duration	1 year and 213 days
predecessor	Cabinet Rajoy I
successor	Sánchez I cabinet
composition
Party (s)	PP
minister	13
representation
Cortes Generales	134/350

The Rajoy II cabinet was in office as the minority government of Spain from October 31, 2016 to June 1, 2018 .

Government formation

In the December 2015 election , the Partido Popular , which had ruled until then, lost its absolute majority in the Spanish parliament. After months of failing to form a coalition government, parliament was dissolved in May 2016. The resulting new election in June 2016 changed little in terms of the majority.

In the first ballot on October 27, 2016, Rajoy was unable to win an absolute majority of 176 out of 350 votes to be elected as prime minister. In the second ballot on October 29, a relative majority was sufficient, so that Rajoy was elected to the office of Prime Minister with 170 votes in favor, 111 deputies rejected with 68 abstentions. Rajoy then formed a minority government that was supported by the Ciudadanos and the Eusko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco .

The Rajoy II government lost a constructive vote of no confidence in the Spanish parliament on June 1, 2018 , with Pedro Sánchez , chairman of the Spanish Socialists ( PSOE ) becoming the new prime minister .

Composition of the Cabinet

Cabinet Rajoy II (2016)

Cabinet Rajoy II - from October 31, 2016 to June 1, 2018

Office or department	image	Incumbent	Political party
Prime Minister		Mariano Rajoy		PP
Deputy Prime Minister Presidential Minister and Minister for Territorial Administration		Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría		PP
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Development Aid		Alfonso Dastis		Non-party
Minister of Justice		Rafael Catalá Polo		PP
Defense Minister		María Dolores de Cospedal García		PP
Minister of Finance and Public Administration		Cristóbal Montoro		PP
Interior minister		Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez		PP
Minister for Public Funding		Íñigo Joaquín de la Serna Hernáiz		PP
Minister for Education, Culture and Sport		Íñigo Méndez de Vigo		PP
Minister for Labor and Social Affairs		Fátima Báñez		PP
Minister for Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda		Álvaro María Nadal Belda		PP
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and the Environment		Isabel García Tejerina		PP
Minister for Economy, Industry and Competition		Luis de Guindos (until March 7, 2018) Román Escolano (from March 7, 2018)		Non-party
Minister for Health, Social Services and Equality		Dolors Montserrat		PP

Web links

• Cabinet composition on the Spanish government website (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pedro Sánchez new Prime Minister. Retrieved June 1, 2018 .