2023-11-15 11:13:00
In Spain, the Presidency of the Government is renewed every time general elections take place. Although the Spanish Constitution contemplates that this occurs every four years, the current President of the Government has the prerogative to be able to dissolve the Cortes Generales earlier and call new elections, just as Pedro Sánchez did on May 29.
The process to choose a new president of the Government begins once the new Parliament has been set up. Specifically, the king begins it with a round of consultations with the representatives designated by the political groups with parliamentary representation. After these meetings, he notifies the president of Congress who is his proposed candidate to occupy the Presidency of the Government.
From there, as established by the regulations of the Congress of Deputies, the president of the chamber sets the dates to convene the plenary session that will debate the investiture.
In the specific case of this fifteenth legislature, Pedro Sánchez, of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), is facing the possibility of being elected president of the Government of Spain once more. After the attempted investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo (Popular Party) failed, Sánchez will be the candidate who tries to gather the confidence of the chamber in an investiture debate, which will take place on Wednesday, November 15 and Thursday, November 16. Everything indicates that the current president will be inaugurated once more in this first attempt thanks to the 179 supports he already has. In this plenary session, which will begin on the 15th at 12:00 pm, local time, Sánchez will be able to present without limit of time the political program of the Government that it intends to form, as regulated by the regulations of Congress. After a brief break, the representatives of each parliamentary group will be able to intervene to replicate the socialist leader’s proposals for a maximum of 30 minutes. Sánchez may respond one by one or in groups, and they will have the right to a ten-minute reply.
Once all the interventions have been completed, on Thursday the 16th the first
voting, in which the deputies will be named one by one, in alphabetical order, from a letter chosen at random, so that they say “yes”, “no”, or “abstain” to the investiture. On this occasion, Sánchez will need the support of an absolute majority of the chamber to be inaugurated. That is, he should hear “yes” 176 times.
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