With 24 hours left for Felipe VI to begin the round of consultations in which, predictably, he will nominate Alberto Núñez Feijóo as candidate for the investiture, as the winner of the last general elections, from the socialist ranks asked ERC and Junts of to pave the way for Pedro Sánchez so that "sooner or later" he will be the one to go to Congress to be reappointed as Prime Minister.
It was the deputy for Asturias and deputy general secretary 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 be "very clear": "They asked that the party that governs Spain be the PSOE". The path to follow, according to Lastra, is the same one that led to the election on Thursday of the socialist Francina Armengol as president of the Lower Chamber at the head of a Bureau with a progressive majority, after the right-wing parties were unable to build a common front
Precisely the agreement that allowed the Bureau to have a progressive majority is what the spokeswoman for Junts al Congres, Míriam Nogueras, referred to yesterday, who considered that this pact "changes a lot the panorama" of the relations between its formation and the PSOE.
Nogueras highlighted the commitment to allow the use of the co-official languages in Congress announced by the new president of the Lower Chamber on the same day of her election, and the request that will be made to the Council of the EU so that the co-official languages in Spain are official in the European Union. The spokeswoman admitted that the immediate fulfillment of 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 als socialistes.
But one cold and one hot. 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 he heads. The spokeswoman insisted that they will be "very scrupulous" in the negotiation about the investiture and emphasized 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, and he also defended that the amnesty law should include the case of Laura Borràs, the former president of the Parliament.
After the Socialists warned that the Popular Party does not have a majority in Congress for Núñez Feijóo to be invested as the new President of the Government - with reference to the 176 seats set for an absolute majority in Congress -; the new president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, explained that "today", the populars hold "between 171 and 172 seats", referring to the sum of the PP, Vox, UPN and Coalició Canària. But the numbers still don't add up to enough support. And despite the fact that both the PNB and Vox have said that they will not be in the same equation in any case, yesterday the PP tried again to seduce the Basque nationalists, who they asked to "rethink" before to support the PSOE, because the socialists "are more comfortable with Bildu".
Some words that did not go down well with Ferraz. The spokeswoman 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.
