Otherwise, new elections would be triggered.ĭon’t miss out on ET Prime stories! Get your daily dose of business updates on WhatsApp.TORONTO, Ma/CNW/ - Vox Royalty Corp. Lawmakers have a maximum period of three months to reach an agreement. King Felipe VI then appoints one of the party leaders to submit him or herself to a parliamentary vote to form a new government. Spain's new Parliament will meet in a month. Bringing forward the elections has turned out to be the right decision for Pedro Sanchez," said Manuel Mostaza, director of Public Policy at the Spanish consulting firm Atrevia. "PP has been a victim of its expectations, and the Socialists have been able to capitalize on the fear of the arrival of Vox. And both the PP and Vox agreed on wanting to repeal a new transgender rights law and a democratic memory law that seeks to help families wanting to unearth the thousands of victims of Franco's regime still missing in mass graves. Vox campaigned on rolling back gender violence laws. But Sanchez, in moving up the election, made the campaign coincide with the PP and Vox striking deals to govern together in town halls and regional governments following the May ballots. "Pedro Sanchez, despite losing the elections, can block (Feijoo's) investiture and, even worse, Pedro Sanchez could even form a government," he said.įeijoo sought to distance the PP from Vox during the campaign. Its leader, Santiago Abascal, called the results "bad news for Spaniards." Vox, however, lost 19 seats from four years earlier. Countries such as Germany and France are concerned about what such a shift would portend for EU immigration and climate policies. The Socialists and other leftist parties, meanwhile, drummed on the fear of having Vox in power as a junior partner in a PP-led coalition.Ī PP-Vox government would have meant another EU member moved firmly to the right, a trend seen recently in Sweden, Finland and Italy. "We have won the elections, it corresponds to us to form a government like it has always happened in Spanish democracy," he said.įeijoo focused the PP's campaign on what he called the lack of trustworthiness of Sanchez. PP leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo claimed the right to try to form a government as the most voted party in the election, though he seemed even more unlikely to put together a majority. The 51-year-old had to mount a mutiny among rank-and-file Socialists to return to heading his party before he won Spain's only no-confidence vote to oust his Popular Party predecessor in 2018. Sanchez can add this election night to yet another comeback in his career that has been built around beating the odds. Instead, he stunned his rivals by moving up the vote in hopes of gaining a bigger boost from his supporters. The backward-looking bloc that wanted to undo all that we have done has failed," Sanchez told a jubilant crowd gathered at Socialists' headquarters in Madrid.Īfter his party took a beating in regional and local elections in May, Sanchez could have waited until December to face a national vote. "Spain and all the citizens who have voted have made themselves clear.
Sanchez could likely call on the 31 seats of its junior coalition partner Sumar (Joining Forces) and several smaller parties to at least total more than the sum of the right-wing parties, but also would fall four short of a majority unless Junts joined them. The Socialists were set to take 122 seats, two more than they previously held.
Even with the 33 seats that the far-right Vox was poised to get and the one seat going to an allied party, the PP would still be seven seats short of a majority. With 98% of votes counted, the Popular Party was on track for 136 seats. "We won't make Pedro Sanchez PM in exchange for nothing," Miriam Nogueras of Junts said. But if Junts asked for a referendum on independence for northeast Catalonia, that would likely be far too costly a price for Sanchez to pay. The divided results have made the Catalan separatist party Junts (Together) key to Sanchez forming a government. It's now or never."īut the chances of Sanchez picking up the support of the 176 lawmakers needed to have an absolute majority in the Madrid-based Lower House of Parliament are not great. "I don't want to vote again in a few weeks. Now we are (practically) tied, but let's see if we can still govern," said Fernandez, a lawyer.
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