The Spanish party Sumar said on Monday that only a coalition of the left and extreme left has a chance of being the government in Spain after the elections on Sunday and asked the Socialists to sit down to negotiate.
“Right now there is only one possible investiture in Spain, and it is not that of Mr. Alberto Núñez Feijóo because he does not have the numbers for an investiture,” said the Sumar spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, referring to the president of the PP (right).
The PP was the party with the most votes in the Spanish legislatures on Sunday, but it did not achieve an absolute majority alone or with the far-right Vox, with which it governs in coalition in three autonomous communities.
The Socialist Party (PSOE), the second most voted, and Sumar assumed in the campaign the will to govern together and this Monday Ernest Urtasun called for negotiations with a view to developing the “government program and ministerial structure” to start immediately.
Sumar’s spokesman stressed several times, at a press conference, that the two parties, with the support of other regionalist formations that elected deputies, have the possibility of forming a government.
Ernest Urtasun added that Sumar will also initiate contacts with these parties to “make possible” the left and extreme left coalition “as soon as possible.”
Sumar’s spokesman refused to give details about “the contents” of the negotiations with these parties, among which are Catalan and Basque independentists, such as Together for Catalonia (JxCat), which advocates holding a referendum on the independence of the region or amnesty for those convicted of Catalonia’s attempt at self-determination in 2017.
Ernest Urtasun said he was convinced that PSOE and Sumar could form a government and that there would be no repetition of the elections, which he considered “nobody would think of”, because he would be giving “an opportunity to PP and Vox” to get the majority that they did not have on Sunday.
The leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, had already taken for granted the victory of the left in the elections on Sunday in Spain and announced last night that she would start talks with all the progressive forces to “guarantee the Government of Spain.”
Sumar is a platform of extreme left parties that were part of Unidas Podemos, which was part of the Spanish government in the last legislature, in coalition with the Socialists.
Yolanda Díaz is the current Minister of Labor and one of the Vice Presidents of the Government.
The leader of the Socialists and Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, celebrated this Sunday the “failure of the withdrawal bloc”, but gave no indication of what he will do and when in relation to the formation of a new Executive.
The leaders of the PP have guaranteed since Sunday night that, as the most voted party, they will try to form a government.
Source: TSF
