Spanish Health Minister copied 19 of the 52 pages of the investigative work she produced as part of the Masters Degree

The resignation also puts pressure on opposition leader Pablo Casado, whose degree from the same public policy institute as Monton's is under investigation. The current leader of the PP (Popular Party, founded by Franco's ministers), Pablo Casado, is under fire for a similar degree obtained from the same institution in 2009. So far he has refused to hand over his final dissertation, and has stated that he will not resign even if the Supreme Court, which is investigating the case, decides to charge him.

Sanchez, who became prime minister in June promising to root out corruption, lost a culture minister over a tax fine. His center-left government has been marred by erratic policy-making, with several U-turns on cabinet decisions. Yesterday Sanchez supported the Health Minister and announced that "she will keep at work". One lie more. Hours later the Minister resigned after the press confirmed that Her final degree work was plagiarized, it later emerged, that it had chunks of text copied from websites as Wikipedia and other works. This is the level of the Spanish politicians class, a cast with a DNA of lies and corruption.

Monton is the second cabinet member to be replaced in the just over 100 days since Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez came to power.