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The 60-year-old politician faces reelection this upcoming Sunday.
A 17-year-old, named only as Andres de VF, was arrested and was expected to appear in court today. Rajoy began to fall after the hit but was stopped from hitting the ground by a crowd of people who caught him.
The teenager reportedly then told police: “I’m glad I did it”.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Thursday tweeted a video of himself working out in a gym a day after he was punched in the face while campaigning for Sunday’s general election.
El País, a Spanish newspaper, reported that the assailant stood near the prime minister under the pretense of taking a selfie.
The assault took place in front of a church in the northern city of Pontevedra in Galicia, where Mr Rajoy grew up.
In a radio interview Thursday morning, Rajoy said he would not draw political conclusions from the incident and hoped no one else would.
The prime minister’s Popular Party has the clear advantage in polls, with support hovering about 27 percent.
He later said he was “fine…”
In this December 16, 2015 picture, a poster of the leader of Socialist Party Pedro Sanchez is ripped out in Madrid.
But Spain has been suffering through an economic slump and has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the European Union. The People’s Party appears likely to gain the most votes in the upcoming elections, but is unlikely to win a majority in the Congress of Deputies, the country’s 350-seat lower house, according to Spanish pollster Metroscopia.
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