After the vote of no confidence against the government of Rajoy and the election of Pedro Sanchez as Prime Minister on 1 June 2018, the PSOE faced an absolute majority in the Senate of the PP (62 socialist senators vs 146 PP senators), which had the objective of hindering the work of the socialist government, as was demonstrated by the PP veto to increase the limit of expenditure of the General State Budget on 27 December 2018. This veto prevented the use of 6 extra billion euros.