The PSOE is in a hurry. The Socialists want to close an agreement as soon as possible with all the possible members of a hypothetical yes bloc to the re-election of Pedro Sánchez and today they will start working to build a majority for the investiture. They want to put an end to the noise and avoid the political tensions that could generate negotiations that are complicated enough that they can end up getting in their way, as happened to Alberto Núñez Feijóo, for whom the month of September has been very long before reach his failed investiture.
The countdown started yesterday and the deadline will end on November 27. Two months in which the acting president aspires to get 179 seats, if he ends up convincing the Canarian Coalition as well, something that the PSOE is not ruling out.
It won’t be an easy few weeks and the socialists recognize that, who know that it is a puzzle with many pieces to fit together. In front of them will be the PP, which is already taking out the artillery to attack the hypothetical government that emerges from these negotiations. The populists take for granted that there will be no new elections, but they believe that the legislature may be short, which could offer Alberto Núñez Feijóo a new opportunity to reach Moncloa. They even have a new slogan to describe Sánchez’s future executive if the pact comes to fruition: “Government of lies”.
They are leaving behind the wedge of “illegitimate government” with which they insulted the coalition Executive in the previous legislature to coin a new slogan against the majority that may soon be formed in Congress.
These months the big mistake of the media and political right in Madrid has been to underestimate Sánchez. They did it in the elections of 23-J, when they gave him up for dead prematurely, and perhaps they also do it trusting that the internal tensions that may exist between the parties that support the PSOE in the investiture will end up breaking the new government They even believed that the King would not end up designating him as a candidate for the investiture because he did not have enough votes, in view of the uproar that the decision has caused on social networks.
However, the problems that Sánchez may encounter on the way to the investiture are not only on the right. The parties that are supposed to support him sell their vote more expensive every day. The list in the Kings of the Orient never stops growing. The socialists assume this and trust to give satisfaction to a large part of these demands.
But Feijóo is right when he says that Sánchez’s investiture has a bit of “theatre”. Some formations are exaggerating the negotiations, and this is not only a matter of ERC and Junts, immersed in a tough competition for hegemony in Catalonia. So does Yolanda Díaz when she maintains after meeting with the King that “they are far from even reaching an agreement” or Iñigo Urkullu himself, who brings out the colors of the PSOE for the breaches of the transfer schedule they had agreed . Sánchez needs the votes to secure the investiture, but also to consolidate the legislature. He will have to prove that he is a little more than a lucky, risky politician.