Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez wins new term as Spanish PM following election gamble – Europe live

MPs vote Sanchez in for second term by 179 votes to 171 but People's Party says result comes after huge assault on the rule of law'

The conservative People's party (PP) is continuing its criticism of Pedro Sanchez inside and outside congress, hammering him for his deals with Junts and the ERC.

This is what the PP's secretary general, Cuca Gamarra, just told the COPE radio station:

The problem our country has is called Pedro Sanchez. Pedro Sanchez is the problem because we're talking about a politician who is capable of doing anything in his own interest and in order to remain in government in Spain. To get the seven votes he needed after losing the [general] election, he's gone as far as signing and saying he's going to deliver an impunity law in return for his investiture. There's no doubt whatsoever that the danger Spain and our coexistence is facing is called Pedro Sanchez. That's what we're talking about.

The investiture isn't happening today or yesterday - it's already a done deal that was agreed outside Spain, in Waterloo.