King Felipe VI of Spain started this Monday consultations with parties with parliamentary representation after which he must propose a candidate for the post of chairman of the government, for which both the acting head of the executive branch, a socialist Pedro Sanchez as Conservative leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo.

Both must show the head of state what they have sufficient parliamentary support.

The conservative People’s Party (PP) won the most votes in the July elections. with 137 seats in the Congress of Deputies, but without a sufficient majority in the lower house of the Spanish Parliament, where investment decisions are made.

Sanchez’s PSOE Socialist Party won 121 and last Thursday, he received enough support to take over the leadership of Congress, although the groups that backed him warned that his investiture vote was not closed.

Among them are Junts, the party of the former president of the regional government of Catalonia Carlos Puigdemont, fled Spanish justice after the unilateral declaration of independence in 2017, which, with the participation of seven deputies, is key in voting for investments.

consultations begin with parties with smaller representation, among them are the regionalist groups, the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and the left-wing Sumar coalition, the fourth most voted force with 31 deputies.

Them The Catalan Independence Forces will not be present such as the Junts, the Basques or Galician nationalists who, along with Sumar, supported the PSOE to take over the leadership of the Congress.

Tuesday will be the turn of the most voted, that is, the conservatives, socialists and far right of Vox, which has 33 seats and has announced its support for the PP in the investiture, although on Thursday it did not support the leadership of the lower house.

Nunes Feijoo defends his candidacy present in the investment session as the force with the most representation, while Sanchez argues that this is the group with the most support to achieve a sufficient majority among 350 deputies.

Candidate finally proposed by the head of state requires an absolute majority of Congress on the first vote or simple in the second vote, which will take place in 48 hours.

If, after both, you do not receive sufficient support, within two months of the first new votes may be held but if no candidate receives sufficient support, there will be new elections.

(EFE)