World President Rajoy began his contacts to form a government in Spain – Telam

The president of the government in office, the conservative Mariano Rajoy, began Thursday his contacts to negotiate the support you need from other parties to form government in Spain, after winning the elections on June 26 with more votes and seats than in December but without majority to re-election. At the last moment, Rajoy changed strategy and began with a phone call to the president of the regional government of the Canary Islands and leader of the Coalition Party Canaria (CC), Fernando Clavijo, who is the one with the lowest parliamentary representation. A single seat

the Member of this formation, with whom he will meet on Tuesday, would be key in the equation for the leader of the Popular Party (PP) get reelected. After the December elections, CC was the only party to the agreement between liberals and socialists was insufficient support for the leader of the latter, Pedro Sanchez, is elected president.

The prime minister had said that his first contact would be with Sanchez, whose Socialist Party (PSOE) came second in the election with 85 seats, compared with 137 of the conservatives, to explore the possibilities of support or abstention of his party.

Virtually all options available to the leader of the Popular Party (PP) to stay in power passed by the PSOE. However, knowing that at least initially the Socialists reject both options, as is public knowledge, he chose to start with the easiest, because ahead has a very thorny path.

After the verdict of the polls, Rajoy made it clear that his preferred partner is and wants to offer Sanchez form a government of “grand coalition”, something the PSOE officially rejected.

That formula, which is invited to join the Liberal Party Citizens, which would give it greater stability but is the most difficult to achieve because the refusal Sanchez has the support of his party.

The second option to shuffle the Conservative leader, and the most viable is that the PSOE refrain his investiture. For now the Socialist leader also rejects this option, but within his party there is a division in this regard.

On July 9 the Federal Committee of the PSOE -maximum body direction- set by the position of the Socialists will meet. Socialists are expected to ratify that in no case will support Rajoy, but may leave open a door to not hinder his inauguration.

To convince the Conservatives say they are willing to even talk about the labor reform approved by the government of Rajoy, which Sanchez wants derogar- and constitutional reform, said Thursday according to one of the deputy secretaries of PP, Javier Maroto.

Sanchez does not appear before the press since Sunday, when he assessed the electoral results of the PSOE, which were the worst in history but was allowed to keep the “hegemony of the left”, to avoid the predicted overtaking the leftist coalition Unidos Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, who came third with 71 seats.

While the Socialist leader was not explicit in rejecting the possibility that his party refrain at an investiture of Rajoy, he said he would put their votes and seats for change, which is a veto Rajoy .

Instead, the spokesman for the Electoral Committee of his party, Antonio Hernando, clearly said that the PSOE will not support Rajoy or abstain, and recommended the PP leader seek support in their “ideological kindred” .

Rajoy could complete the majority needed for re-election, 176 deputies, adding to its 137 32 with the liberal Citizens, who remained in fourth place, 5 the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and one of Canary Coalition.

With this sum would be a deputy of the absolute majority and in case of need one abstention second vote to be elected. That vote would be on the socialist side, although he could give Pedro Quevedo, the number two in the socialist list by Las Palmas, which belongs to the party New Canaria.

While it has an agreement with the PSOE and the PP ruled out support, Quevedo said could negotiate abstention.

For that, Rajoy also needs a favorable vote of Citizens and the PNV, because otherwise you still need total abstention of the PSOE.

The leader of Citizens, Albert Rivera, still claims that will not support a government of the PP if there is no feedback, if Rajoy continues to lead, but insists he wants to talk about “content and reforms” if others parties waive put the “chairs” ahead.

However, the spokesman for Citizens in Congress, Juan Carlos Girauta said Thursday that his party could reach an agreement to invest Rajoy at least “medium term”, ie two years, then submit his mandate to a “matter of trust,” a motion.

In an interview with TVE, the Spanish public television Girauta beyond reiterated that his party will need a table between the three Constitutionalist forces -PP, PSOE and citizens as an agreement covering the liberals and the PNV is “unnatural”.

In the same way, the Basque nationalists ask the PSOE “to get wet,” because neither are neither supporting nor “letting” Rajoy. “He would have to change a lot,” said deputy PNV, Aitor Esteban.

Meanwhile, in the negotiations that began Rajoy, the leftist coalition Unidos Podemos is what clearly was offside, as it went from the expectation of leading a government alternative to PP coalition, as indicated surveys, to virtually remain in opposition and no margin to press for an option to unseat conservative La Moncloa.

The leftist coalition looks inward by the failure of the coalition with the United Left (IU), which resulted in the loss of more than a million votes but obtained the same deputies who in December.