Spain’s Socialists resign in bid to topple leader

‘Nearly half of the senior members of Spain’s Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) have resigned in a bid to oust party’s leader Pedro Sanchez and put an end to the country’s nine-month political deadlock.
“Seventeen resignations… were handed in today,” a PSOE spokesman said on Wednesday.
This brings the total resignations to 19 as two separate resignations were submitted before, said a Socialist lawmaker, who is against Sanchez and spoke on condition of anonymity.’
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