Sánchez is running for the investiture but insists on respecting the King's proposal

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has offered himself to the King to be a candidate and submit to the investiture debate, although he maintains the utmost respect for the proposal that the monarch can make once he concludes this afternoon with the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo the consultation round.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
21 August 2023 Monday 16:20
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Sánchez is running for the investiture but insists on respecting the King's proposal

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has offered himself to the King to be a candidate and submit to the investiture debate, although he maintains the utmost respect for the proposal that the monarch can make once he concludes this afternoon with the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo the consultation round.

"From the Socialist Party we believe that we are in a position to unite the required parliamentary support, as was accredited last week in the constitution of the Table and the presidency of the Congress of Deputies", he pointed out before confirming that this has been the case. transferred to the King. "There is only one possible parliamentary majority as required by article 99.3 of the Constitution; and it is a progressive majority led by the PSOE. There is no other alternative than to reissue a government of progress", he has sentenced.

Endorsing the utmost respect before the King's hypothetical proposal to Feijóo to be the one who initially presents himself for the investiture, Sánchez has warned the leader of the popular that "it is not an exhibition procedure, but for the process he has to gather the necessary support." "And from the PSOE we believe we are in a position to unite it", he has insisted.

"My commitment to progress and coexistence, to cohesion and to the rights of the social majority is total and absolute", he pointed out before recalling that "this is also the will of the majority expressed by the citizens, freely, with your vote on July 23.

Therefore, he added, in his opinion the possible alternative of the PP led by Feijóo is "wasteful". Hence, he has predicted that "it would be a failed investiture."

Asked about the 172 votes that the PP exhibits to lead the process, the President of the Government has ironized that "Mr. Feijóo has a ceiling and we start from a floor." The same on which the corresponding negotiations have already begun that have ERC and Junts as the most difficult partners to close.

Both pro-independence formations have set, as a starting point, the processing of an amnesty law that neutralizes the criminal effects of the process. Given this, Sánchez has claimed the "coherence" with which his Executive has acted in the last four years to mark the limits of the negotiation: "Dialogue is the method and the Constitution is the framework", he has reiterated on several occasions to finish his argument by declaring that after the elections of 23-J it became clear that "Catalan society is committed to reunion and coexistence".