The Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) and the left-wing platform Somar have reached an agreement on a governing coalition in Spain after the July 23 parliamentary elections, the two political forces announced on Tuesday.
The two parties “reached a programmatic agreement for the formation of a new progressive coalition government in Spain,” which “will serve a four-year term,” PSOE and Somar said in a statement.
The agreement will be formally signed and presented in Madrid late Tuesday morning by PSOE leader Pedro Sánchez and Somar leader Yolanda Díaz.
Sánchez is also the current Prime Minister and Díaz is one of his current Vice Presidents and Minister of Labor in the current government of Spain, which in the last term was already a coalition of the PSOE and Unidas Podemos (the left party). platform of the socialists, now succeeded by Somar).
PSOE and Somar do not have an absolute majority of deputies in the Spanish parliament, so if the government wants to come to power, this will have to be made possible by other nationalist and independence parties from Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country, with which they continue to show their support. negotiations, without an agreement having yet been reached.
If no new prime minister is appointed by parliament by November 27, Spain will have to repeat the elections.
According to the statement they released today, PSOE and Somar have reached an agreement on “the goal of full employment for the next legislature” and that includes measures to reduce working hours without cutting wages or “a shock plan against youth unemployment” .
Instead, the two sides agreed on “fair tax reform that ensures banks and major energy companies contribute to government spending,” without providing further details.
The increase of the social housing stock to 20% of the total number of houses in Spain, the ‘upward revision’ of the targets of the Climate Change Law and the universalization of education up to three years old are other measures included in the agreement. PSOE and Somar.
The PSOE was the second party with the most votes in the July 23 elections and Sánchez has been negotiating a strategy with Basque, Galician and Catalan nationalists and independents to make a new left-wing government viable in parliament.
The Popular Party (PP, right) received the most votes on July 23, but did not gain an absolute majority and the Spanish parliament rejected the candidacy for prime minister of the president of the popular parties, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, at the end of September. .
Source: DN
