The leaders of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez; from the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and from Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, meet their new parliamentarians today while they rush the negotiations to close the Congress Table, pending the position of Junts, which will not be revealed until the last minute, tomorrow just before to begin the full constitution of the Congress and the Senate and give way to the XV Legislature.
The acting President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, for now the one with the best chance of closing an agreement for the Table, meets today with the socialist leadership and will later hold a meeting with the socialist deputies and senators in Congress, while the rest of the elected parties will also meet their respective leaders today.
The Federal Executive of the party that meets today starting at 9:30, has announced today that it will propose former Extremaduran president Guillermo Fernández-Vara to occupy the Vice Presidency of the Upper House and will keep Patxi López and Eva Granados as parliamentary spokespersons in the Congress and the Senate, respectively, according to sources from this party have pointed out to Efe, after advancing yesterday the proposal of the former president of the Balearic Islands Francina Armengol to hold the Presidency of Congress that will give control of the Chamber.
In the Government, the acting first vice president, Nadia Calviño, defends that the presidency of the Lower House be for someone from the Socialist Party. From the Canarian Coalition, the Canarian president, Fernando Clavijo, pleads for a PNV presidency, but EH Bildu settles that this idea is not on the table “not even as a possibility.” The PP assures that “it has its plans”, as its general coordinator, Elías Bendodo, has pointed out, although it has not yet made a proposal, summoning its deputies and senators from 6:00 p.m. to a meeting in which the popular candidates to preside over both chambers, as well as the rest of the members of the Tables.
The key for the majority, however, is held by Junts, whose Executive will not meet until tomorrow, when it has called a telematic meeting minutes before the constitutive session of the Cortes begins.
Sumar’s spokesperson in Congress, Marta Lois, confirmed on Monday that contacts are being made with the Junts pro-independence groups to get a Congressional Table set up with a progressive majority that, in her opinion, should be chaired by the PSOE.
The seven Junts deputies have to debate and give a response to the wing closest to the former president and MEP, Carles Puigdemont, who defends objectives such as the referendum and amnesty, and the most pact-oriented sector, in favor of negotiating the investiture of Pedro Sánchez in exchange for progress. substantial measures in terms of self-government and an end to the “repression” against the independence policies.
Today, Puigdemont, has asked for “verifiable facts before committing any vote”, both for the investiture and for the Table of Congress. “We cannot advance nationally based on promises made by those who always break them,” he said in a tweet. “We have no confidence in the Spanish political parties, all precaution is little and promises do not warm or cool us.”
He has pointed out that the position of Junts has not changed despite the existing pressures: “We have no confidence in the Spanish political parties, all precaution is little and promises do not warm or cool us.”
Puigdemont has argued that this mistrust “based on real events” will not disappear by agreement, and that a disagreement will not deepen this mistrust.
The Permanent Deputation, the only body that remained in office after the dissolution of the previous Cortes Generales prior to 23J, is held today at 5:00 p.m. to approve the report giving accounts to the Congress of Deputies of the XV Legislature on its activity in this period : free hand to the royal decree-law of urgent measures in agrarian matters, response to drought and discounts in terms of rail transport and extension of measures due to the consequences of the Ukrainian War, support for La Palma and of other measures.
