A messy bribery scandal with high-profile casualties is dividing Spain's centre-right opposition Popular party and undermining Mariano Rajoy, its leader, as a potential future prime minister.
The widening scandal, which began over the alleged exchange of expensive gifts for lucrative contracts from the Popular party (PP), has "affected the probability of Mr Rajoy winning the next elections", according to 73 per cent of respondents to a recent poll published by the left-leaning El País newspaper.
