He king of Spain, Felipe VIentrusted this Tuesday to the president of the outgoing government, the socialist Pedro Sanchezpresent your candidacy to Parliament to try to be invested again at the head of the executive, announced the president of the Congress of Deputies, Francina Armengol.
To achieve the confidence of the deputies, that his conservative rival Alberto Núñez Feijóo failed to get last week, Sanchez It will have to have the necessary support of the Catalan independentists who demand in exchange a controversial amnesty for separatists with legal cases for the attempted secession of Catalonia in 2017.
Philip VI has made this decision after the second round of consultations with the leaders of the parties that wanted to go to the Zarzuela Palaceamong those who have not returned are the majority of potential allies of Sanchez for his eventual investiture (ERC, Junts, EH Bildu and BNG).
At the end of the second day of meetings to designate the new candidate for the Government of Spain, which ended this Tuesday with the meetings with Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóothe president of Congress, Francina Armengolheld a brief meeting with the monarch to find out his decision regarding the candidate for the investiture.
Subsequently, Armengol has announced Sánchez’s name in an appearance from the Lower House. However, he has not given details about the date of the investiture, whose deadline is November 27, since the first vote for Feijóo’s investiture activated the deadlines to form a government. With this date as the deadline on the horizon, Armengol will convey the king’s decision to the candidate and will listen to “his proposal of necessary times.”
The first step to form a coalition government
With this election, the battle for the investiture of the current acting President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, a task it undertakes with its main partners in combat position. And the thing is, Sumar was the last party to warn Sanchez that the agreement to reissue the progressive coalition government “is still far away.”
In the absence of the leader of the acting Executive appearing from the Moncloa to evaluate this announcement, Feijóo criticized that it is a “humiliation” to undergo an investiture without yet having sufficient support secured. “Sánchez is a supporting actor in a play directed by Puigdemont. We will see the level he gives to the supporting actor, he can give him an Oscar for best actor or an Oscar for supporting actor or simply no nominations. “I don’t know how the festival is going to end,” he added in reference to the negotiations with Junts.
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In view of the conversations between the socialists with the different forces of the parliamentary arch so that they say yes to Sánchez, Feijóo He has ventured that “dark negotiations, a theatricalization of politics and lies await us. Many lies. You are going to have a lot of fun with those lies that you are going to tell us but we citizens are tired of lies,” she has insisted on the possibility of agreeing on an amnesty law with the independentistas.
Regarding the negotiations for the investiture of Sanchezthe acting Minister of Finance and number two of the PSOE, Maria Jesus Montero, has once again asked for “discretion”, since it is “what marks the policy of dialogue and consensus with all political groups.” However, he has announced that these negotiations will not only seek to tie up the investiture of the current President of the Government, but will also seek to “consolidate the governability of Spain in the coming years.”
Source: Ambito
