24 hours after Felipe VI begins the round of consultations in which, predictably, he names Alberto Núñez Feijóo as a candidate for the investiture, as the winner of the last general elections, from the socialist ranks they asked ERC and Junts to pave the way for Pedro Sánchez so that "sooner rather than later" he is the one who goes to Congress to be invested again as President of the Government.
It was the deputy for Asturias and Deputy Secretary General for Political and Institutional Action of the FSA-PSOE, Adriana Lastra, who verbalized this request to "all" the Catalan parliamentarians in Congress, since in Catalonia on 23-J the result was " very clear”: “They asked that the party that governed in Spain be the PSOE”. The way forward, according to Lastra, is the same that led last Thursday to the election of the socialist Francina Armengol as president of the Lower House at the head of a Table with a progressive majority, after the right-wing was unable to articulate a front common.
Precisely the agreement that allowed the Table to have a progressive majority is what the Junts spokesperson in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, referred to yesterday, who considered that said pact “changes the panorama a lot” of relations between her formation and the PSOE.
Nogueras highlighted the commitment to allow the use of the co-official languages in Congress announced the same day of his election by the new president of the Lower House, and the request that will be made to the Council of the EU so that the co-official languages in Spain are officials in the European Union. The spokeswoman admitted that immediate compliance with the agreements is something that "has not happened in the last four years" and a valid argument to justify the support of the formation led by Junts for the Socialists.
But one of lime and one of sand. Nogueras insisted that there is no closed agreement for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez and reiterated that there must be "new commitments" to guarantee the support of the deputies of the group that he leads. The spokeswoman insisted that they will be "very scrupulous" in the negotiation on the investiture and stressed that the amnesty and the referendum for Catalonia will be the conditions for Sánchez to have his votes. Now it is the PSOE that has to see if "it moves or not," said Nogueras, who also defended that the amnesty law include the case of Laura Borras, the former president of Parliament.
After the Socialists have warned that the Popular Party lacks a sufficient majority in Congress for Núñez Feijóo to be sworn in as the new Prime Minister – in reference to the 176 seats set for an absolute majority in Congress -; The new president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, explained that "to this day", the popular maintain "at least between 171 or 172 seats", alluding to the sum of PP, Vox, UPN and Canary Coalition. But the numbers still do not come out. And despite the fact that both the PNV and Vox have said that they will not be in the same equation under any circumstances, yesterday the PP tried again to seduce the Basque nationalists, whom it asked to give "a thought" before supporting the PSOE, because the socialists “are more comfortable with Bildu”.
A few words that did not sit well with Ferraz. The spokesperson in the Senate, Eva Granados, reminded Rollán that now that he is president of the Upper House, he must maintain "obligatory neutrality" and "respect for the rules of coexistence, starting with the Constitution," he wrote on the social network Twitter, now called X
