Breaking the Deadlock in Spain: The Right Demands a Meeting with Sánchez

2023-07-30 16:31:42

Spain

The right demands a meeting with Sánchez to break the deadlock

The leader of the People’s Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, believes that Spain must avoid an “ungovernable” situation.

PostedJuly 30, 2023, 6:31 PM

The PP leader is ready to meet the outgoing Prime Minister.

The conservative Alberto Núñez Feijóo, whose People’s Party (PP) won the legislative elections in Spain, without obtaining the number of seats necessary to form a government, asked the outgoing Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, for a meeting to avoid “a ungovernable situation”. “Spain does not deserve an ungovernable situation and we cannot afford a blockade at such an important time for our economy and our institutions, in the midst of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union”, he added. on Twitter, now X.

The leader of the PP indicated that he was making this request once the counting of the votes of Spanish voters living abroad had been completed and “as the winner of the July 23 elections”. The counting of votes from abroad, which ended on Saturday, gave the Popular Party a seat for the Madrid constituency originally allocated to the Socialists, and although the latter remain favorites to form a government, the new balance of power makes their situation more complicated.

Equal power ratio

At the end of this count, the Socialists lost a seat while the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo won one. But the two formations are far from the 176 seats necessary to obtain an absolute majority in Parliament in the first round, with 121 and 137 seats respectively. With the support available to the two parties, the balance of power now stands at 171 deputies for the left and 171 for the right.

This means that Sánchez will need of the votes of the seven deputies of the Catalan independence party, Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) of independence leader Carles Puigdemont. If neither bloc wins a majority to form a government, Spain will have to hold new elections, probably at the end of the year, as was the case in 2016 and 2019.

In addition, the Socialist Party has requested verification of more than 30,000 invalid votes from voters abroad, in the hope of recovering the seat that the PP took from it, further complicating the formation of a new left-wing government, Spanish media reported on Sunday.

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