Just over a month after the parliamentary re-election in Spain, King Felipe VI. commissioned the Executive Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to form the new government. Felipe has proposed after two days of consultations with the party leaders Sanchez as candidates, said Parliament President Meritxell Batet today in the late evening before journalists in Madrid.
The date for parliamentary elections has not yet been decided, she said. This decision of the head of state had been expected. The Socialist Workers‘ Party (PSOE) of Sanchez clearly won the election at the end of April, but clearly missed the absolute majority.
Talks with parties are pending
In order to form a government, the Prime Minister will probably depend on the votes of small regional parties and possibly also on those of the separatist deputies from Catalonia.
So far, Sanchez, also because of the European elections at the end of May, has not begun any real negotiations with other parties. So far, only the 123 votes of the PSOE deputies in the 350-seat parliament are sure of him. In the election of the Prime Minister in the Congreso de los Diputados, the candidate in the first round requires an absolute majority of the yes votes. In the second ballot, a simple majority is enough.
