The King of Spain begins a second round of contacts with parties with parliamentary representation, after the rejection on Friday, by the plenary session of deputies, of the candidacy for prime minister of the leader of the Popular Party (PP, right).
The PP was the party with the most votes in the elections of July 23 and King Felipe VI nominated, in August, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of the people, as a candidate for president of the Government, but the investiture was rejected by the deputies, with 177 votes against the 350 who sit in parliament.
With the ‘advantage’ of parliament to Feijóo, a period of two months began to be counted, which ends on November 27, for the Congress of Deputies to elect a new head of Government and there will be no repetition of elections.
The new round of hearings with the parties ends on Tuesday and Felipe VI must then propose a new candidate to lead the Government, which will be voted on in parliament.
The new candidate will predictably be the leader of the Socialist Party (PSOE), Pedro Sánchez, who has already said that he is available and believes that he has the conditions to gather the necessary support in Parliament to be re-elected President of the Government.
Sánchez says that he already demonstrated this on August 17, when the socialists managed to win the presidency of parliament thanks to the support of left-wing parties and nationalist and independence forces in Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country.
The leader of the PSOE recently stated that there will be a new left-wing government in Spain “in a short time.”
The leaders of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), fundamental for the viability of Sánchez’s Government, said that everything is “very open”, that they do not “absolutely” rule out the repetition of the elections” and that “nothing is closed” with the PSOE.
The independentistas are asking Sánchez for an amnesty for those who participated in Catalonia’s unilateral declaration of independence in 2017 and in the negotiations on a self-determination referendum in the region.
If Sánchez’s candidacy also fails, the Spanish Cortes (Senate and Congress of Deputies) formed after the elections of July 23 will be automatically dissolved on November 27 and there will be new legislatures 47 days later, that is, on January 14, 2024.
Spain has already repeated elections twice, in 2016 and 2019, because no candidate for prime minister was approved by parliament.
Source: TSF
