The president of the Spanish Popular Party (PP, right), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, admitted on Thursday the failure of his inauguration as prime minister within a month, due to the lack of the necessary support in parliament.
“Perhaps this investiture process will not lead me to the presidency [do Governo], but it will bring to national politics and to the Congress of Deputies the equality of citizens, the dignity of our institutions and the priorities of families. And this, I think, is worth it,” said Núñez Feijóo, in an initiative of the PP in Madrid, before an audience of militants and party leaders.
Feijóo admitted on several occasions that the investiture session as Prime Minister, scheduled in the Spanish Parliament for February 26 and 27, could fail, stating that “it is true that despite having won” the July 23 elections it did not have “all the real potential”. possibilities for the investiture to bear fruit”.
The president of the PP once again defended that in Spain there is “an alternative to blackmail” from the Basque and Catalan separatists, referring to the agreements that made possible the left-wing government led by the Socialists in the last legislature and that could be reissued again. new after the elections on July 23, and guaranteed that he will insist on this proposal, “even if it costs to receive a no” in the investiture as prime minister.
Feijóo, who won the elections but does not have a majority of support in Parliament that guarantees him the inauguration as Prime Minister, on Wednesday proposed to the PSOE leader, Pedro Sánchez, an agreement whereby the party with the most votes would govern, as has always happened in Spanish democracy for the last 45 years, and that would put an end to the influence of the Catalan and Basque separatists.
The PP leader said that he proposed to Sánchez “six great State pacts” and that the Socialists would make a people’s government possible during a two-year legislature, the moment to implement those agreements.
The PSOE rejected the proposal, stressing that the PP ran in the July 23 elections with the project to “revoke sanchismo”, that is, the policies of the last years of the current government, led by Pedro Sánchez.
The Socialists also considered that there is “cynicism and hypocrisy” in the proposals and statements of Feijóo, who insists that the most voted list govern in Spain, but that since the regional and local elections of May 28 has agreed with other parties to prevent The PSOE led the executive of two autonomous communities and more than a hundred municipalities that were won by the socialist party in the ballot.
Despite having admitted today the possibility of a failure in his investiture as prime minister, Feijóo assured that he will continue with the round of contacts with the parties that have managed to be represented in parliament, to try to gather support.
The PP was the party with the most votes in the elections on July 23 and the King of Spain appointed Feijóo as a candidate for Prime Minister, whose investiture must now be voted on by Parliament on September 26 and 27.
The PSOE has ensured that, despite being the second party with the most votes, it is in a position to re-form a government, with the votes of the deputies of a ‘contrivance’ of leftist, extreme left, regionalist, nationalist and pro-independence forces. , who already managed to join the elections for the presidency of parliament on August 17.
Source: TSF
