PP spokeswoman Soraya Saénz de Santamaría announced during a stormy Congress meeting this morning that the party intends to table a motion of censure against Foreigh Affairs minister, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, over the 'Human Rights and Alliance of Civilisations Dome' designed by Miquel Barceló and inaugurated yesterday by King Juan Carlos I, UN general secretary Ban Ki-moon and president Zapatero in Hall XX at UN European headquarters in Geneva.

It will be the first motion of its type tabled since the last general election, though the feisty Ms Saénz added that they are not ruling out also bringing one against against Employment and Immigration minister, Celestino Corbacho.

The controversial ceiling sculpture, which cost €20m and took thirteen months to complete, is being financed to the tune of 40% by the Spanish government.

Describing the  eight million euro expenditure, which came out of the development aid budget, as "disproportionate, unjust, illegal, and immoral," the opposition demanded to know if the money could not have been better spent buying vaccines for African children.

In reply, Mr Moratinos defended the piece, which King Juan Carlos yesterday described as "undeniably beautiful," and by Mr Zapatero as "a work of genius by a Spanish genius."

The embattled minister accused the opposition of misunderstanding the difference between the development aid fund and the budget for international cooperation, then pointed out that, since coming to power, the government has paid for hundreds of thousands of vaccinations - compared to zero during the last full year of the previous conservative administration - whilst also partly funding the education of 63 million African children.