It will be at ten o’clock in the morning when Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo will meet in the Congress of Deputies. The meeting takes place at the request of the leader of the Popular Party who wants to open with the secretary general of the PSOE the round of contacts for his investiture debate scheduled for September 26 and 27
Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo will meet at 10 am this Wednesday in a meeting that seems doomed to failure, with the teams of both leaders advancing that no understanding will be reached.
The popular allude to the “democratic and institutional normality” between the two main political parties, but they do so after having presented themselves in the general elections of July 23 promising to “repeal Sanchismo”. For the socialists, the appointment, as well as everything surrounding the investiture debate that Feijóo will star in on September 26 and 27, is a “waste of time” and a “paripé”, as they have declared prior to the meeting. In spite of this, Sánchez will attend the meeting out of respect for the assignment that Feijóo has received from the King and willing to “listen”.
In this way, negotiations continue on the part of Feijóo with the aim of reaching September 26 with sufficient support for the investiture as President of the Government. At the moment the popular leader has the support of 172 deputies from four parties, PP, Vox, Coalición Canaria and UPN, when he needs 176, which is the absolute majority. On the other hand, the Socialist Pedro Sánchez, has 171 assured supports, at the expense of the decision of the seven deputies of Junts per Catalunya.
The electoral repetition could take place on January 14
If the PP candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, does not get the support to be invested in the plenary session of September 26 and 27, there is a period of two months from that date for the PP leader or the PSOE candidate, Pedro Sánchez, to continue seeking support for a government majority, before new elections are called. Thus, these would be held on Sunday, January 14, according to the deadlines established by the electoral law. The electoral campaign would last one week and would begin on January 5.
After a first failed investiture, the King would open a new round of consultations and, once finished, he would have to propose a new candidate. If in two months, a period that starts to run from the first vote, no one manages to be invested, Felipe VI will dissolve the Cortes and call new elections.
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