The leader of the Spanish People’s Party, Alberto Feijoo, and acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will meet on Wednesday at 10:00 am (9:00 am in Lisbon) in the Parliament of Madrid, party sources said. EFE.
The meeting comes one day after the leader of the People’s Party (PP) contacted Sanchez via WhatsApp and asked for a meeting as part of a Feijoo-promoted contact round to solicit support for a possible inauguration. government of Spain.
PP sources said that upon first contact, Feihoo offered Sanchez a “phone call” about the matter.
According to socialist sources, the acting prime minister and leader of the PSOE agreed to the contact and proposed three dates, including this Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, leaving the final meeting in charge of the heads of cabinets of the two parties.
According to EFE, the meeting date was set for 10:00 am Wednesday (9:00 am in Lisbon) at the Congress of Deputies (Spanish Parliament).
For the PP, the meeting of the two leaders is typical of “democratic normality” and will “mark the post-election agenda on 23 July” as well as the “current situation” leading up to the (possible) inaugural debate scheduled for 26 September.
Feijoo had already told Sanchez during the election campaign that the PP and PSOE should work on a model that “facilitates the introduction of the ‘list’ with the most votes.”
According to PP sources, the same position will be handed over to Feijoo Pedro Sanchez at the meeting on Wednesday.
Socialist Party (PSOE) spokeswoman Pilar Alegria confirmed on Monday that she was ready to meet with Feijoo, but reiterated that parliament’s nomination of the PP leader as prime minister was “doomed to fail” due to the lack of a majority. support of deputies.
Feijoo is starting a round of contacts with parties represented in parliament with Sanchez after he was nominated by the King of Spain last week as a candidate for prime minister to be voted on in a plenary meeting of deputies.
The PP was the party with the most votes in the July 23 elections, but without an absolute majority, which it also cannot achieve with the support of the parties that have so far guaranteed a vote in favor of Feijo’s entry into office.
To be elected prime minister, Feige will have to rely on the abstention of left-wing MPs, nationalists and separatists.
PSOE leader Pedro Sanchez said last week that he believes he has the conditions to muster the necessary parliamentary support and return to head of the Spanish government.
Sánchez said the PSOE believes it “is in a position to muster the necessary parliamentary support” to re-form the government, “which was proven” on 17 August during the presidential elections for the Congress of Deputies (Spain’s parliament) held in the hands of the Socialists.
The PSOE was second in the number of votes in the July 23 elections, but has more support in parliament than the PP, so it seeks to form a government with the votes of deputies – a “cunning” device of regionalists, nationalists and independence forces.
If Feijoo’s inauguration as prime minister fails, the King of Spain may nominate another candidate for the post in Parliament.
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