The incumbent President of Spain and General Secretary of the Socialist Workers’ Party of Spain (PSOE), Pedro Sánchez, secured the absolute majority in the investiture that will take place on November 15th and 16th in the Chamber of Deputies.
Sánchez announced to members of his party that there would be a government next week after securing the votes of 179 MPs after negotiating an amnesty with Catalan independence leaders.
In order to achieve the 179 votes necessary to be sworn in as head of the executive branch, Sánchez entered into a series of agreements with six political parties to guarantee the country’s ability to govern and carry out all legislative initiatives, including general state budgets.
Sánchez predicted a “legislature of stability” and “institutional coexistence” and criticized a “traditional right” in connection with the violence against the PSOE headquarters in several cities in the country, actions that were not condemned by the Popular Party (PP). .
He accused Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party of being “a disoriented, overwhelmed right, unable to stand up to the most reactionary right” (Vox), and called for “reason and restraint” because “they are based on a reactionary the path towards the abyss”, in addition, he demanded that he recognize “the legitimacy of the government soon to be formed in Spain”.
The leader of the PSOE spoke this Saturday at the plenary session of the Congress of the European Socialist Party (PES) in Malaga, an event with which the Socialists want to mark the political line for the European elections in June 2024.
Leaders of the PSOE and the Catalan Independents of Together for Catalonia (JxCat) signed an agreement in Brussels on a future amnesty for people who took part in the independence process in Catalonia in 2017, opening the door to a new inauguration of the socialist Sánchez al-Sánchez for another four years be at the head of the government.
The amnesty law must be registered for processing by the Spanish Congress in the coming days, ahead of Pedro Sánchez’s investiture debate, expected next week.
The PSOE and JxCat had been negotiating for days in Brussels over the details of this amnesty project, the last obstacle to the socialists’ agreement with left-wing and nationalist forces ahead of the swearing in of Sánchez as the new head of the executive branch this month.
This Saturday, according to the government delegation in Madrid, around 200 supporters of the Frente Obrero demonstrated from 12.30 p.m. in front of the PSOE national headquarters on Ferraz Street in Madrid against the amnesty law that the Socialists have agreed to and the Catalan Independents.