Spains ousted prime minister Mariano Rajoy bid farewell to his conservative Popular Party (PP) on Friday, in a long, emotional speech as party members prepare to elect his successor.
The 63-year-old veteran politician is quitting as head of a party he has led since 2004 after he was ousted as prime minister in June in a parliamentary no-confidence vote tabled by his Socialist rival Pedro Sanchez, angered at the PP's repeated corruption woes.