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 |
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| 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 |
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| History | |
| Election(s) | 2011 general election |
| Outgoing election | |
| Legislature term(s) |
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| 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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