The PSOE will have to fight the copper to control the Presidency and the Table of Congress. Right now, who has the most confirmed support for the votes on August 17 is the right. The PP warns that it is going to do everything possible to control the governing body of the lower house and the fact that everything depends on the seven Junts deputies (if the Canarian Coalition ends up voting with the popular ones) forces Ferraz to roll up his sleeves.
Félix Bolaños intensifies the negotiating work. The acting Minister of the Presidency, who until yesterday remained on the coast of Almería, plans to return to Madrid in the next few hours to give a boost to the talks. Eight days left. If the PSOE fails to gain a majority to defeat the right at the Table, the investiture that Pedro Sánchez wants to attempt becomes even more complicated.
From the PSOE, negotiations have been opened both with Sumar and with the nationalist and pro-independence groups with the initial premise that it should be a socialist deputy who should preside over the Chamber for the next legislature. In order to balance the sudoku of the election, the Socialists are willing to cede a member in the leadership of the Chamber to a representative of nationalism or independence, understanding that the logical candidate would be the PNV.
The PSOE gives importance both to being able to control the Chamber through the articulation of a progressive majority, and to having the presidency of the third institution of the State. In other words, being in charge of a fundamental institution in the democratic architecture. Once the formations with less representation have been ruled out to give up a place on the Board, it is understood that the Basque nationalists are the ones with the most experience in what State policy is. In the global negotiating context, facilitating JxCat and ERC to have their own group is essential for both formations, which do not have the required 15 seats.
The possibility of facilitating the formation of these two groups would also lighten the composition of the Mix, with the presence of the BNG, the Canary Islands Coalition and the UPN without the need to share time and resources. Likewise, in this multilateral pact that the PSOE is looking for, the presidencies of the commissions can come into play.
From Sumar, new voices were raised yesterday raising the possibility that the presidency of the Congress does not fall on the PSOE. Joan Baldoví, from Compromís, pointed out that it would be a way of reflecting the plurality of 23-J. Enrique de Santiago, from Izquierda Unida, also endorsed the idea of ??introducing this variable on the presidency into the negotiation.
In this troubled river the PP intends to fish. Genoa’s negotiating position, internal sources explain, is to try to add more votes than the left in successive votes. “Arithmetically it is possible”, they defend. What’s more, they have a possible variable: “Will the possible PSOE members notify Sánchez?”, they wonder.
In order to form an alternative majority, the PP also has to negotiate with Vox, which demands, at least, a position in the governing body of the chamber, as Ignacio Gil Lázaro, fourth vice president, has held in the last legislature. Party sources unlink the conversations for the Table from the support of its 33 deputies for a possible investiture of Feijóo. In the last vote to elect the vice presidents and secretaries in Congress, PP and Vox were unable to coordinate their votes and the left managed to add six representatives to three.
The PP, in public, insisted yesterday on the idea launched by Feijóo on Sunday when he stated that he continues working to form a constitutional majority. The deputy secretary general, Miguel Tellado, said that Vox’s unconditional support represents “advance” and asked Sánchez to facilitate a government of the one who won the elections.
