The general secretary of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, has met this morning the deputies and senators of his party elected in the last elections of July 23 to convey to them his intention to ask for the confidence of Parliament to be re-elected as president of the Government. The socialist has also referred to the PP and the agreements sealed with the far-right formation Vox, to ask Alberto Núñez Feijóo not to try to “pressure” King Felipe VI with an investiture for which he does not have support and to based on “magic cabals”.
Before the Head of State begins his round of consultations with the representatives of the political formations, Sánchez has proclaimed before the deputies and senators of the Socialist Group his intention to “request the confidence of Parliament to form a progressive government that consolidates in Spain the advances”.
In his opinion, the alliance of PP and Vox was defeated in the general elections of July 23 and does not have enough votes to achieve the investiture and for this reason he has asked Feijóo not to “pressure” the king by offering himself for a vote that did not is going to win. “This is not the time to put pressure on the head of state, or magic cabals, it is the time for democracy,” he stressed. The PP has been running for the investiture alleging that Feijóo won the elections and has 171 secured votes (PP, Vox and UPN), fifty seats above the PSOE.
