The president of the Popular Party (PP, right) of Spain asked this Sunday the rest of the country’s parties to let him form a government, despite having won the legislative elections this Sunday without an absolute majority, and that a “blockade” is not created.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo said that as leader of the “most voted party” he would “immediately open dialogue” with other parties that elected deputies and “he would try to form a government”, “based on the electoral results and the electoral victory” of the PP.
The leader of the PP, who was addressing the militants gathered today in front of the party’s headquarters in Madrid, has insisted that this is “the will expressed by the Spaniards” and has asked that “nobody be tempted to blockade Spain again”.
“The anomaly of not governing the party with the most votes only has the blockade as an alternative,” stressed Feijóo, who considered that this scenario “does not benefit Spain” and harms “the international prestige” of the country, “the fourth economy in the euro.”
The president of the PP “expressly” asked the socialist party (PSOE, of the current president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez) not to block the formation of a new government and stressed that in Spain the leader of the most voted party has always governed.
Feijóo, who was president of the Xunta de Galicia between 2009 and 2022 and took over the leadership of the party in April last year, stressed today that the popular people had not won national legislative elections in Spain for seven years.
“We surpassed the Socialist Party in votes and seats in Parliament,” he said, after stressing that the PP won the elections this Sunday in 40 of Spain’s 52 constituencies.
Saluting the “civic example” of the Spaniards who went to vote today despite the “unbearable temperatures” in several regions, he once again backed a change in the law that prohibits elections in July and August.
The conservatives of the Popular Party (PP) have won today’s legislative elections in Spain, but without obtaining an absolute majority with VOX, according to the provisional results released by the Government.
The PP, with 136 deputies, and VOX, with 33, only managed to add 169 deputies to parliament, leaving seven of the 176 necessary for an absolute majority.
The PSOE, with 122 deputies, and Somar, with 31, total 153 seats in parliament and may have more deputies than the right with the allies of the last legislature.
Source: TSF
