King Felipe VI of Spain gave more time to political parties to negotiate a way to end the nearly three-month stalemate over who should form a new government.
The royal palace announced the decision Monday after the monarch met with a representative of Parliament, after the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), Pedro Sanchez, failed last week muster enough legislative support to create a new government. The palace said that by the time the king had decided not to call the party leaders for further consultations on who should try to form a government.
Political parties now have two more months to try to form a government or face a new election to be held on June 26. The choice of December 20 was a totally fragmented parliament, since none of the parties won a majority in the House of 350 seats.
Candidates for the presidency must muster the support of most lawmakers in the chamber during a first round, or more votes in favor than against in the second.
Sanchez, whose party won 90 seats, said he intends to continue in the competition, but the two votes last week, only managed to accumulate 40 deputies of Citizens, sympathizing party with the sector private, and later, one more than a small party in the Canary Islands.
Sanchez continues to press for support it can, a new leftist group which has 69 seats but opposes negotiations which include Citizens.
The conservative Popular Party (PP) in the first place was to get 123 seats in the election, but lost the majority it had since 2011. Party leader and acting Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy then he told the king that he was not in a position to be a candidate for relegirse because it lacked enough support.
But Rajoy insists that the PP should lead the government said Monday it would contact Sanchez to try to gain support in an unprecedented coalition of the two main parties in the country. The Socialist Party, however, refuses to negotiate with Rajoy.
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