Timeline A tumultuous year in Spain
1 June People’s party leader Mariano Rajoy ousted as PM after corruption scandal. He’s replaced by Pedro Sánchez who has just 84 seats of 350.
18 June Sánchez abandons pledge for early elections
22 July Conservative PP shifts to the right with election of Pablo Casado as Rajoy’s replacement
16 September In another reverse, Sánchez says he may go to the polls if he can no longer govern