Spanish labour reform passed in knife-edge vote, opposition blames error

FILE PHOTO: Spanish Labour Minister and Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz speaks during a session of the parliament in Madrid, Spain, Feb 3, 2022. REUTERS/Juan Medina

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's fragmented parliament approved the minority leftist government's labour reform on Thursday by a margin of just one vote, which the main opposition party said had come from one of its members by mistake and vowed to try to annul the result.

The decree that overturns a previous conservative administration's pro-business reforms by granting more power to unions in bargaining contracts is a cornerstone of a raft of conditions for Spain receiving the next 12 billion euro disbursement of European pandemic recovery funds.