Spanish legislature rejected a second time PSOE government proposal – El Universal (Venezuela)

Madrid.- The Spanish Congress rejected Friday in second vote the socialist Pedro Sanchez as Prime Minister, an unprecedented event in Spain that opens a period of uncertainty in which they can present new candidates or call new elections if there is no chief executive in two months.

This was the second vote to which Sanchez underwent 48 hours after first, as mandated by law, this time with the result of 219 votes against and 131 in favor

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the result today was expected, since the position of all groups was clear from two days ago, when the Popular Party (PP, center-123 seats), we (left, 69) and the left parties and minority nationalists , they voted against.

the candidate of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) needed Friday more yeas than Noes, but only had 131 votes Please ninety seats his party and forty of liberal education Citizens and one of the Canarian nationalist formation in an integrated 350 deputies House.

in his earlier speech to the vote Sanchez defended his candidacy again with the promise of a cabinet “reform and progress” and asked for it the support of the parties that want change and appropriate both your left and your right.

the socialist leader I said that change is only possible through a “cross” agreement, which includes the liberal Citizens, already committed to Sanchez, and the Podemos party, left.

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“I feel in my soul that Spain does not have tomorrow a government,” Sanchez said after the failed vote, before accountable PP and we in this situation and announce that it will continue to work to form a majority achieved “with urgency “the” government of change “that needs to Spain.

in his reply in the House, the acting president, Mariano Rajoy warned that his party would vote against the socialist candidate because their proposals are” the demolition “of the work its formation, the Popular Party, has built in the last legislature, and are those that” have overcome the disaster “heritage last PSOE government.

Rajoy even accused the socialist leader of committing “corruption” having put “institutions at their service” in this investiture debate, to come to him without the necessary support.

Meanwhile, the leader of Podemos, the leftist Pablo Iglesias, voted not disagree with the agreement of the socialists with the liberal Citizens and asked Sanchez to look to the forces of left and nationalist and work for the benefit of a covenant with them that “worry the oligarchies “Spanish.

the only support Sanchez is Citizens, whose leader, Albert Rivera, criticized PP and can for their” complacency and laziness “to change and they he asked

“stop destroying” because “we need a new political era.”

During the next two months king Philip VI may propose new candidates -including self Sanchez again if you think you can have any support, but if that period elapses without new president will dissolve parliament and elections will be held in late June.

Both the group Popular Party as we have set in the last hours to resume negotiations after the failed investiture session today, with the aim of reaching a new Executive no later than two months.