MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Monday rejected calls to resign over a ruling party financing scandal and said he would not allow the matter to hold back his reform plans.
The political pressure mounted on Rajoy as the former treasurer of his centre-right People's Party gave new testimony before a judge looking into the affair, saying he had made 90,000 euros (77,856.6 pounds) in cash payments to Rajoy and party secretary-general Maria Dolores Cospedal in 2009 and 2010.
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