MADRID (Reuters) – President of the caretaker government and the Popular Party candidate Mariano Rajoy said Monday he hopes to reach a minimum agreement to form a government within a month with the support of PSOE, after leaving winner in the general election on June 26.
“I think that within a month we should have a minimal agreement, because it would not make sense is to be again in a period of several months losing time, “Rajoy said in an interview on the COPE radio.
despite the election results of the previous day reinforced the negotiating position of the Popular Party with 137 seats, 14 more than in December, Rajoy yet is far from having an absolute majority of 176 seats and will need to reach agreements to govern.
Rajoy said his ambition is to reach an agreement that would allow a majority government stable, so it would need to be supported PSOE, so we can approve the budgets of 2017 and carry out the reforms that are still calling from Brussels.
“I not only will try to be invested, what I’m going to try is to find a formula with a majority government, “Rajoy said. “I’ll talk with all political forces and the first with the PSOE, as the second political force in our country,” he said.
“I believe that on the fundamental issues need to PSOE,” the current president functions.
in the PSOE, which reaped its worst result in a general election, still it was confusion after a first moment of euphoria at having maintained the second position and avoided the “sorpasso” on the hegemony of We left, with Unidos Podemos as the third most voted.
While the secretary of the PSOE, César Luena, insisted that his party would not support a government of Rajoy “either by action or by omission” the Extremadura regional baron Guillermo Fernández Vara said Sunday’s results showed it was the turn of a Popular Party government.
gOVERNMENT wITH CITIZENS
the other option is Rajoy is posed to have the support of citizens. However, even with the 32 seats the party Rivera, need 7 seats more to get pass an investiture vote in the first round.
The popular leader is aware that it would need to add other political forces regional your project with this option, which would further instability to a future government.
“we would need an agreement with Citizens and need the PNV and Canary Coalition, arriving just in half,” Rajoy said, pointing that sum would place a seat absolute majority.
Albert Rivera, who during the elections was very clear condition possible support of his party PP off Rajoy, wanted now putting the reforms names in future negotiations.
“We are not one to say what to do in their games,” he said the leader of Citizens in Antena 3. “When there is a big deal, we’ll talk armchairs, talk of government and who will take care of that. “
” There has to be a majority of three games, “said the liberal leader, insisting that his bet is a government Popular and socialists.
(Reporting by Maria Vega Paul, edited by Rodrigo de Miguel)
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