The Sumar deputy and IU spokesman in Congress, Enrique Santiago, does not rule out that the Presidency of the Lower House could fall to a pro-independence or nationalist force: “We are building a broad alliance and I consider that no proposal is ruled out.”
Santiago, in statements in Congress this Monday, has indicated that this “respectable” proposal that Pablo Echenique, still the spokesperson for United We Can, has put on the table, as well as others that may arise, “will have to be discussed collectively.”
In the midst of the negotiations to establish the governing body of the Lower House, the leader of Sumar has also spoken about the conversations with Junts, pointing out that an amnesty, as demanded by Carles Puigdemont’s party to support the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, in addition of the referendum, does not have “any legal limitation”.
“Conversations with any force to form a government are open,” Santiago stressed, insisting that renowned jurists maintain that “there is no limitation for the approval of pardons, extended pardons or amnesties.”
That does not mean, he has qualified, that Sumar is going to support an eventual amnesty law: “This does not mean that it is what corresponds or ceases to correspond: we will have to see how the government majorities are formed.”
Santiago, who has gone to Congress to present his credentials as a deputy, has also referred to Vox’s willingness to support a solo inauguration of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, but has stressed that the PP “has no allies, nobody picks up the phone because he has linked his policies to the extreme right”.
And regarding what the PNV can do in this regard, since the PP would need the votes of the Basque nationalists, he has indicated that he does not contemplate that there is any democratic force that will sustain a government supported by the ultra-right.
