The leader of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Socialist_Workers'_Party" id="mwAco" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Spanish Socialist Workers' Party">Spanish Socialist Workers' Party</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Sánchez_(Spanish_politician)" id="mwAcs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pedro Sánchez (Spanish politician)">Pedro Sánchez</a>, resigns. He would return to the position a year later.<sup about="#mwt128" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-23"}}' id="cite_ref-23" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_1#cite_note-23" id="mwAcw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 23;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAc0">[23]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-23"><cite about="#mwt125" class="citation news cs1" id="mwCSA"><a class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37529610/" id="mwCSE" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Pedro Sanchez: Spanish Socialist leader resigns"</a>. <i id="mwCSI">BBC News</i>. October 2016.</cite><span about="#mwt125" class="Z3988" id="mwCSM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=BBC+News&amp;rft.atitle=Pedro+Sanchez%3A+Spanish+Socialist+leader+resigns&amp;rft.date=2016-10&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-europe-37529610%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOctober+1"></span></span>