O candidate of the Spanish Workers Socialist Party (PSOE) needed, in this first attempt, to have obtained the support of half plus one (absolute majority), 176 votes, from all the 350 Spanish Members, to be confirmed in the post he has occupied since June of 2018.
Peter Sanchez will have another opportunity to be invested in two days, on Tuesday, at the same time, everything seems to be successful, in a second vote in which only need to have more votes in favor than against (absolute majority ).
Today’s vote lacked a Member who, in principle, will vote in favor of Pedro’s investiture Sanchez on Tuesday.
“Yes” voted for the investiture PSOE, Unidas Unidas (far left) and several smaller national and regional parties, while on the “no” side was the right-wing bloc – PP (Popular Party), Vox (far right) and Citizens (liberal right) – as well as other small and character regional.
The investiture session as head of government of the candidate of the PSOE It started on Saturday and ends on Tuesday.
Everything indicates that Peter Sanchez will be invested on Tuesday after negotiating the abstention of the 13 members of independence Catalan ERC (Republican Left of Catalonia), accepting the creation of a “dialogue table” to resolve “the political conflict over the future of Catalonia”.
The investiture debate is being marked by the strong opposition of right-wing Spanish parties to a governmental solution that will be possible only with the endorsement of the largest party. independence Catalans, whose leader, Oriol Junqueras, is serving a 13-year prison sentence for his involvement in the 2017 separatist attempt.
Sanchez presented in parliament on Saturday, on the first day of the investiture session, the coalition government program that the socialists intend to form with Unidas Somos.
The program envisages raising lower wages and taxes on the largest companies, as well as reversing a controversial 2012 labor market reform by the Government of Mariano Rajoy, from PP.
If the socialist leader is invested on Tuesday, he will lead the first coalition government formed since the beginning of Spanish democracy, which began with the approval of the 1978 Constitution, three years after the death of dictator Francisco Franco.
O PSOE and PP have been alternating in driving all Spanish executives for the past 40 years.
Sanchez became prime minister in June 2018, after proposing a motion of censure that toppled Mariano’s minority government Rajoy very beaten by the eschasndalos corruption of members of the People’s Party.
The socialist leader led a minority executive until he was unable to approve the State Budget early in 2019 and called early elections.
O PSOE was the most voted party in April last year, but far from the absolute majority, having failed to form a government with the United We Can, which led to the repetition of the electoral consultation that little changed the distribution of power in parliament.
At the electoral consultation of 10 November Finally, for the Congress of Deputies, the PSOE had 28.0% of the votes (120 deputies), followed by the PP with 20.8% (88), the Vox (far right) with 15.1% (52), Unidas Somos with 12.8% (35), and Citizens with 6.8% (10), ERC with 3.6% (13), with the remaining votes divided by smaller parties.
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