2023-07-25 13:41:14
The Socialist Party (PSOE) will negotiate with “discretion” an investiture of Pedro Sanchez as president of the Spanish Government with those formations in favor of the “social majority” of spainsaid the deputy general secretary of the party, María Jesús Montero, who rejected the holding of a referendum on independence in Catalonia.
The referendum and an amnesty for those accused of the 2017 secessionist attempt in that Spanish region are two of the requests of the Catalan independence party JuntsxCat to allow the left-wing bloc to govern in Spain.
The Socialists obtained 122 seats in the general elections last Sunday (07.23.2023) and they need deputies from other left-wing formations to reach the majority of 176 necessary to be able to form a government, for which the party led by the Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont, a fugitive from Spanish Justice in Brussels, will be essential.
“The PSOE has always been very clear on this issue. We are a constitutionalist party, any issue that we address has to be within that constitutional framework,” he said in an interview on Montero radio.
He also pointed out that now the priority is the constitution of Congress and the Senate on August 17, and confirmed the will of the PSOE to negotiate an investiture for Sánchez, for which he requested “discretion”.
“We will continue talking as always with all those who want to continue developing a country project where the social majority, the general interest, prevail,” he declared.
Montero stressed the need to articulate “an agreement and consensus” so that there continues to be a “progressive” government in Spain, “despite the discrepancy that may exist a priori between the ideological meanings of each group”, and she was convinced that it will be achieved.
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