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First Rajoy Government

First Rajoy Government
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2011–2016
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Date formed 21 December 2011
Date dissolved 31 October 2016
People and organisations
Head of state
Head of government Mariano Rajoy
Deputy head of government Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría
No. of ministers 14
Member party PP
Status in legislature
Opposition party PSOE
Opposition leader
History
Election(s) 2011 general election
Outgoing election
Legislature term(s)
  • X Legislature (2011–2016)
  • XI Legislature (2016)
Budget(s) 2012 budget
2013 budget
2014 budget
2015 budget
2016 budget
Outgoing formation 2015–16 government formation
Predecessor Zapatero II
Successor Rajoy II

The first Rajoy Government was formed after King Juan Carlos I nominated Mariano Rajoy to form a government following the 2011 general election on 20 November. Rajoy was elected Prime Minister on 20 December by the Congress of Deputies and was sworn into office on 21 December, with his cabinet being appointed the following day. It succeeded the second Zapatero Government.

Mariano Rajoy led his party to the largest electoral victory of the centre-right in Spain in history in the 2011 general election, winning 186 out of 350 seats, an absolute majority of seats. Rajoy was sworn in as Prime Minister on 21 December 2011 after he obtained the confidence vote in the Congress of Deputies. The cabinet endured from 21 December 2011 to 31 October 2016, a total of 1,776 days, or 4 years, 10 months and 10 days. Rajoy's first cabinet was composed mainly by members of the People's Party and some independents.

No major reshuffles took place during the Government's tenure, with the Cabinet seeing only punctual replacements as a resulty of some of its members resigning on their own.

On 28 April 2014, Miguel Arias Cañete resigned as Minister for Agriculture, Food and Environmental Affairs in order to stand as his party's candidate to the 2014 European Parliament election. He was succeeded by Isabel García Tejerina.


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