Pedro Sánchez will travel to Malaga this afternoon, where he will first meet with the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and then will participate in the opening day of the congress of the European Socialist Party (PES). And he will not be able to do so as the newly inaugurated president of the Government, as was his initial forecast. But the leader of the PSOE will already arrive at the meeting with the guaranteed support of an absolute parliamentary majority that next week will endorse his re-election as head of the Executive.
“We have achieved a majority that will make the investiture of Pedro Sánchez possible,” the acting Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, celebrated this Friday morning. While waiting for the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, to announce the date of the investiture debate, in agreement with the candidate, Bolaños has limited himself to pointing to next week. In the PSOE, however, they already have the following Wednesdays and Thursdays, November 15 and 16, highlighted on the calendar. By having an absolute majority, the investiture can be resolved in the first vote, in a plenary session in Congress that lasts only two days.
After the agreement signed this Thursday between the PSOE and Junts in Brussels, Sánchez himself has given special importance to the investiture pact with the PNV, which he staged this Friday with a meeting with the president of the Basque nationalists, Andoni Ortuzar, in The congress. Shortly after, it was confirmed that the Canarian Coalition also joined the bloc of yes to the investiture. This agreement will be signed by the deputy secretary general of the PSOE, and acting Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero.
“Our goal is to have 179 votes in the investiture,” the acting Minister of the Presidency and leader of the PSOE had stressed early this morning. “There are 179 deputies who have not been chosen at random, but have been chosen by the people,” he highlighted. And, with the PNV and CC, there are already 179 votes tied.
This absolute majority for the re-election of Pedro Sánchez as President of the Government, which the PSOE intends will not only be for the investiture but also for the legislature, would be made up of the Socialist Group (121 seats), Sumar (31), Esquerra (7), Junts per Catalunya (7), EH Bildu (6), the PNV (5), the BNG (1) and the Canarian Coalition (1). The bloc of no to Sánchez's investiture will thus gather only 171 seats: those of the Popular Party (137), the far-right Vox (33) and the Navarro People's Union (1).
