Alberto Núñez Feijóo is convinced that the agreement between the PSOE and the other groups that must invest Pedro Sánchez “is practically done”, and that in the coming days and weeks we will witness “a dramatization of demands, anger, tensions, false break-ups and final agreements”; in short, to the simulation of an investiture negotiation.

The popular leader claims that, in reality, Sánchez already has an agreement with Sumar, even if the words of the leader of this formation, Yolanda Díaz, deny it. In the same way, he believes that the PSOE candidate also has an agreement with ERC, and that Bildu and the BNG “give him free support”.

Therefore, “only Puigdemont is missing”, he stressed, so that if there are elections “Puigdemont will decide it”, not Pedro Sánchez, assured Feijóo, who gives the acting president the role of “supporting actor” in a work that is directed from Belgium.

The PP wishes to emphasize in the coming weeks, and until the plenary session of Sánchez’s investiture, the “opaque” nature of a negotiation that will not be easy for the socialist president. That is why yesterday Feijóo demanded “clarity” on what is being negotiated, to put an end to “the opaque negotiations” that the PSOE maintains with “populist parties of the left and extreme left”, and with the pro-independence parties, “who have objective is the liquidation of constitutional equality and the separation of powers”, he warned.

Despite this, Feijóo takes the agreement for granted, otherwise the aspirant to revalidate the presidency of the Government would have asked the King “for a little time, even if it was only for a little dignity”. Instead, the leader of the PP made it clear yesterday that he would prefer an electoral repeat. “Between the deception of the lie and elections, I prefer elections”, he said after meeting with the King in his second round of contacts, in which Felipe VI tasked Sánchez to try to form a government.

As long as no agreement is reached to invest Sánchez, Feijóo boasts that the acting president “now has less support than a month ago”. Now “he would not reach 130 deputies”, pointed out the leader of the PP, who recalled that he reached 172 seats while his opponent “criticized that he accepted the King’s order” without having the necessary 176.

During the hearing with the King, Feijóo assured him that he would support the decision that he made “whoever the candidate was”, but this did not prevent him from being very critical of Sánchez and his potential partners, most of whom were absent in the round of contacts in the Zarzuela for “not accepting the legitimacy of the constitutional monarchy, neither the Constitution nor the rules of the democratic game”, he lamented. A “presumed negative majority” united in the no, he said, the “no to what has won the elections, no to the Constitution, no to the rule of law and no to the general interests of the Spanish”. According to the leader of the PP, it is “a coalition of interests of all those who lost the elections”.

Despite the failure of his investiture, Feijóo made a “positive assessment” of his investiture assignment after having remained “three yeses” – the PP recognizes as a yes the vote of Eduard Pujol, of Junts , which was declared null–. The reason: “I have not had to give up my principles, nor my program, nor national dignity”. In other words: “I did not want to be president at any price”, he remarked.