The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has proposed the current general secretary of his party, Cuca Gamarra, as a candidate to preside over the Congress of Deputies. Thus, he will be measured with the socialist and former Balearic president Francina Armengol to preside over the third institution of the State.
To preside over the Senate, the one chosen by the leader of the PP has been Pedro Rollán, senator for Madrid in the previous legislature.
In addition, it has announced the rest of its candidates for the Bureau of both chambers. For the Congress, Feijóo proposes as members of the Board Marta González, José Antonio Bermúdez de Castro, Guillermo Mariscal and Carmen Navarro. In the Senate, he is betting on the until now spokesperson, Javier Maroto, Eva Ortiz and Marimar Blanco.
In his speech, Feijóo has been convinced that King Felipe VI will entrust him with the task of forming a government having won the elections, something that “he has always done”, while accusing him of being determined to “block” his candidacy because he is “under pressure”.
“I have no doubt that the King will act as he has always done, in accordance with the law, exercising his constitutional powers and at the service of Spain and the Spanish people,” said the ‘popular’ president at the meeting of the Parliamentary Groups of the PP in Congress and the Senate.
Thus, he has made the acting president ugly, who has demanded that Feijóo stop “pressuring” the head of state by offering an investiture that has no support and that is only based on “magic cabals”, his words, assuring that “it gives him the feeling” that “he has the pressure and the problems”.
During his speech, the ‘popular’ president insisted that the PP won the general elections on July 23 and is the majority party in Parliament. “We have won 87 parliamentarians and the PSOE has 21 less, the results of the elections are clear,” he stressed.
For this reason, he has warned of the possibility of “a real blockade” and of the “risk” of a government “weaker and more divided than in the last legislature.” In contrast, he has offered a “useful, serene and serious policy.”
