Mariano Rajoy Brey is the Prime Minister of Spain, elected on 20 November 2011. He has been leader of the People´s Party since 2004. In November 2011, Rajoy´s right-wing People´s Party won its biggest majority since the country´s return to representative democracy in the 1970s, securing 186 out of the 350 seats in the lower house of Parliament. Voters turned to him in hopes of alleviating the pain of Europe´s debt crisis. Following the general election held in 2011. Rajoy was elected Prime Minister by the Congress of Deputies on 21 December 2011.
