Sanchez has stressed that "there is no alternative majority" to the PSOE. He announced that next week he will begin contacts with PP, Ciudadanos and Unidas Podemos. "We are not going to agree with Bildu," he remarked.
King Felipe VI has proposed the socialist leader, Pedro Sanchez, as a candidate for the Presidency of the Government in the investiture debate, as announced today by the president of the Congress, Meritxell Batet, after meeting with the head of state.
Sanchez has affirmed that he assumes the order of the king to try the investiture with "honor and responsibility" and also with "a huge gratitude to the confidence expressed by the Spanish people".
"It is an honor to be able to lead Spain," said Sanchez when he appeared before the media at the Palacio de la Moncloa after Felipe VI informed the president of the Congress, Meritxell Batet, that he proposed him as a candidate to try to invest.
Sanchez has guaranteed that both the PSOE and the Socialist Party of Navarre (PSN) maintain the same position and that they will not agree with EH Bildu to form the Government of Navarre.
"We will not agree with Bildu", remarked Sanchez, who has not wanted to respond at the moment to UPN's offer that the PSOE support a constitutional government of Navarra Suma in the Autonomous Community in exchange for UPN to facilitate its investiture in Congress .
Sánchez: "We will not agree with Bildu"
Sanchez has stressed that "there is no alternative majority" to the PSOE, has called all parties "height of view." "There is no possible alternative: either governs the PSOE or governs the PSOE," he stressed.
Sanchez has announced that next week will begin contacts with PP, Citizens and United We Can, but will also meet the rest of the parliamentary arc, to facilitate "as soon as possible" the endowment of a stable government for the next four years.
"We must all act with a high level of vision, with a huge dose of responsibility, I say the first and I will do it," said Sánchez, who has called on the three main parties to "find that balance point", based on the positions of each, so that you can conform Government.
"There is no possible alternative: either the PSOE governs or governs the PSOE"
Prior to his meeting with Sanchez, King Felipe VI received Pablo Iglesias, Albert Rivera and Pablo Casado at the Palacio de la Zarzuela.
After the meeting, the leader of the PP, Pablo Casado, has assured that his party "is not against" of Navarra Suma, specifically that the deputies of UPN that integrates this group, can abstain in the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, already that the po[CENSORED]r ones as part of that coalition are not going to put "any impediment".
Married has specified that it is not going to oppose especially if this facilitates that this coalition governs Navarre and in Pamplona, something that has considered "fundamental".
He has also demanded that the beginning of the legislature "not be delayed" by "tacticisms" and has claimed "responsibility" to Sanchez to leave behind the "electoralism" of his party and bet on "governance and stability."
The leader of the PP, Pablo Casado, along with King Felipe VI. Photo: EFE
The president of Ciudadanos, Albert Rivera, has transmitted to King Felipe VI that his party will make a "firm" opposition to the future Government of Pedro Sánchez, whose investiture he refuses to support arguing that if he wants to be president again he can get the support of " its partners ", United Podemos and the nationalist parties.
"I have told the King what I already said in Moncloa" (to the incumbent president and PSOE candidate), "that if Cs could not govern we would assume the result (electoral) as democrats, we would be in opposition and we would not support the investiture "he said, adding that it will be a" firm "opposition to the Executive, but" constructive and loyal to the Spaniards. "
The leader of the orange party has urged Sanchez to "move record" and to try to be invested with the support of the parties that supported the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy, whom he has described as "his partners". "You have a majority to govern, you just have to arm it," he added.
The president of Ciudadanos, Albert Rivera. Photo: EFE
For his part, the general secretary of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, has proposed four packages with economic measures to begin negotiations with the PSOE for the formation of a government that, as he insisted, will have to be a coalition to ensure that Pedro Sánchez does not look after Citizens.
Iglesias has insisted that "the first thing is not to talk about ministers" but about the program, but he has been convinced that the PSOE will not veto the names proposed by Podemos.
Asked if he will vote against the investiture in the event that Pedro Sánchez is opposed to including Podemos in his government, Pablo Iglesias has responded: "I do not conceive that the most voted candidate arrives at an investiture without having closed the supports".
Pablo Iglesias has told the king that in his opinion the "most sensible" is that there is a progressive coalition government that guarantees stability, although he has admitted that he believes that Pedro Sánchez is looking at Ciudadanos and would be delighted to have the support of Albert Rivera, who does not seem willing to give him.
The general secretary of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias. Photo: EFE