As if the vote for the election of the Congress Bureau had not taken place, the PP remains obstinate that Alberto Núñez Feijóo must undergo an investiture. Although, to try not to repeat the image of loneliness of his parliamentary group -with the exception of the support of the Canary Islands Coalition- last Thursday, the popular demand the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, to “keep his word” and notify the King who supports the formation of a right-wing government.

The person in charge of endorsing the position of Genoa has been the vice-secretary for Institutional Action of the PP, Esteban González Pons, who has used the same words used in 2016 by Pedro Sánchez to defend that the king should propose Feijóo as a candidate for the investiture since has won the elections. That is why he has demanded confirmation of the initial support offered by him to arrive with more explicit support for the round of contacts that the monarch began this Monday.

In an interview with COPE collected by the EFE Agency, Pons has addressed the leader of Vox to tell him that he trusts him to “keep his word”, offer his support to Feijóo and give “more importance to removing Pedro Sánchez from the Government than to any other discrepancy” that both parties may have had at a specific time.

In addition, Pons recalled that in 2016, when Mariano Rajoy won the elections without a sufficient majority to govern, Sánchez defended that “democracy has its deadlines, its procedures and, consequently” it was Rajoy’s “turn” that “as the first force policy” then had “the right and duty” to “present his investiture”.

The popular ones hope that Felipe VI will therefore follow the same script as in 2016 although, upset with the accusations made from the left for their alleged pressure on the monarch, they have endorsed that the party will abide by any other decision that the king may make.

An equation, that of Feijóo being the first candidate to submit to the investiture, to which the PSOE will not oppose. From Ferraz they admit their tranquility due to the supposed order of the factors when estimating that Feijóo’s attempt will only endorse his lack of support among the parliamentary arc as a whole.

Once Feijóo is proposed for the investiture, he must seek support to form a government and, as Pons has explained, he will contact both the PSOE and the PNV to avoid a new “Frankenstein plus” government that could “make the previous one worse”. Although, in view of the refusal of the Basque nationalists -expressed again this Monday by their spokesman, Aitor Esteban-, he has criticized their resignation from their role as a “hinge party” and they have embedded themselves in the “shadow” of Pedro Sánchez from which they do not leave.

“If I were from the PNV, I would ask my party to try to get profit from the position in which they have put the polls instead of giving up having a decisive role,” he added.

Pons has played down the information about the criticism within the PP for the strategy used by Feijóo by showing an image of loneliness and weakness in the vote on Thursday by not wanting to cede any of his three positions on the Congress Table to Vox . And highlighting internal tensions in Genoa, he has even urged journalists to name their sources for news he sees as “inventions” and “novels.”

For all this, he has defended that Feijóo present his government program as a candidate in Congress because the party”, he has pointed out, has not finished” but “he has many minutes left and all of them have to be played” while he has called to speed up ” the cup to the end”.