SDP leader Luis Montenegro defended on Monday that the PP should form a government in Spain as it won Sunday’s elections, criticizing the “very unusual” occasion for celebrating those who lost them.
“I expect the government to be led by those who won the elections, because that’s normal for a democracy and it’s also normal for the Iberian Peninsula,” a spokesman for the Social Democrat told reporters in Funchal as part of the “Feel Portugal” trip in Madeira.
Montenegro congratulated the leader of the Spanish People’s Party, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, on a “resounding victory” achieved in Sunday’s elections, ensuring an “exponential increase in the number of mandates in the Spanish Parliament.”
For the SDP president, “it seems like a very unusual situation here, because it seems that those who lose elections are celebrating, and not vice versa.”
“I hope that the expressed will of the Spanish people can lead to the formation of a government, and that this government will take office and be able to give Spain a cycle of development, which is reflected in Portugal,” he stressed.
Refusing to analyze the political situation in Spain, Luis Montenegro argued that “the Spaniards spoke very clearly.” “I wanted a government and the leader of that government,” and “now the Spanish political system will react in the way it understands,” he added.
“What we see from the Portuguese side is an electoral victory that should lead to the formation of a government, and this government should lead to a cycle of growth and socio-economic development, which can then be used on this side of the border,” he said.
Montenegro stressed that “Spain is the new main trading partner and what’s good on the other side is reflected here.” [Portugal] and vice versa”.
Sunday’s elections in Spain were inconclusive as the two main blocs failed to win an absolute majority.
The Conservative People’s Party (PP) won the election, but did not win an absolute majority on VOX according to preliminary results released by the government.
PP with 136 MPs and VOX with 33 were only able to add 169 MPs to Parliament, leaving seven of the 176 needed for an absolute majority.
The PSOE with 122 MPs and Somar with 31 won a total of 153 parliamentary seats and may have more MPs than the allies of the last legislature.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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