The future of Spain’s main opposition socialist leader Pedro Sanchez hangs by a thread after top party officials resigned en mass. <br /><br /> 17 out of the 35 member executive committee quit in a bid to force him out. <br /><br /> The internal crisis within the socialists comes after Sanchez failed to form a coalition government.<br /><br /> In Madrid, the president of the party’s federal executive committee Veronica Perez said: “When the secretary- general of an executive committee resigns or more than half of its members step down, that immediately means that executive committee is dissolved.”<br /><br /> The refusal by Sanchez to form a coalition with acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s conservatives, despite two inconclusive elections, has split the socialists. <br /><br /> Rebels blame their leader for the party’s worst ever election results and the rise of left-wing Podemos. <br /><br /> Spain has been in political deadlock for the past nine months. <br /><br /> The rebellion to oust Sanchez seeks to break that stalemate with the clock counting down to a third possible national election in December.<br />
