The president of the newly inaugurated government, Pedro Sánchez, will promise his position as the new head of the executive this Friday before King Felipe, at 10 in the morning at the Zarzuela palace, according to the King’s House.
This Thursday, Sánchez achieved the support of 179 votes from his group, Sumar, ERC, Junts, Bildu, PNV, BNG and CC in the investiture session held in the Congress of Deputies. The other 171 deputies of Congress voted against, which are the 137 of the PP, the 33 of Vox and the UPN.
At five thirty in the afternoon this Thursday, the president of the Lower House, Francina Armengol, informed the Monarch in Zarzuela of the result of the vote. This visit is part of the constitutional protocol by which the president of Congress informs the King of the result of the investiture session.
With the arrival of Felipe VI to the head of State, the Royal House changed the protocol and allowed senior officials to promise before the King without religious symbols. Sánchez himself was the first to launch this new protocol in 2018.
In the solemn act of promise, the head of the Ministry of Justice acts as chief notary of the Kingdom and other authorities also participate, such as the president of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary, the president of the Constitutional Court and the presidents of the Congress and the Senate. .
