Advertisement
Singapore markets closed
  • Straits Times Index

    3,224.01
    -27.70 (-0.85%)
     
  • Nikkei

    40,369.44
    +201.37 (+0.50%)
     
  • Hang Seng

    16,541.42
    +148.58 (+0.91%)
     
  • FTSE 100

    7,952.62
    +20.64 (+0.26%)
     
  • Bitcoin USD

    69,730.77
    -1,320.38 (-1.86%)
     
  • CMC Crypto 200

    885.54
    0.00 (0.00%)
     
  • S&P 500

    5,254.35
    +5.86 (+0.11%)
     
  • Dow

    39,807.37
    +47.29 (+0.12%)
     
  • Nasdaq

    16,379.46
    -20.06 (-0.12%)
     
  • Gold

    2,254.80
    +16.40 (+0.73%)
     
  • Crude Oil

    83.11
    -0.06 (-0.07%)
     
  • 10-Yr Bond

    4.2060
    +0.0100 (+0.24%)
     
  • FTSE Bursa Malaysia

    1,536.07
    +5.47 (+0.36%)
     
  • Jakarta Composite Index

    7,288.81
    -21.28 (-0.29%)
     
  • PSE Index

    6,903.53
    +5.36 (+0.08%)
     

Spain's acting PM Sanchez rejects center-right's conditions for backing him: source

Spain’s acting PM Sanchez speaks during a plenary session at Parliament in Madridspeaks

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez rejected conditions set out by center-right leader Albert Rivera to back him in a vote to form a government, a Socialist party source said on Monday.

Rivera said earlier he would encourage a fellow right-wing leader to jointly abstain to facilitate Sanchez's bid to form a government, some five months after inconclusive elections, provided the Socialist acting prime minister fulfilled a series of demands.

A source in Sanchez's caretaker government said he had asked both right-wing parties not to vote against his bid, and none of Rivera's conditions should impede his receiving a mandate to form a government.

(Reporting by Madrid Newsroom, writing by Isla Binnie; Editing by Ingrid Melander)