Negotiations for an investiture start from scratch: Sánchez's challenges

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There are four initial challenges now that Sánchez appears willing to re-negotiate his investiture. The PP has opened the door to this if the PSOE withdraws its position in Navarra, something unlikely. Today Sánchez begins a round of contacts with unions and social agents to force Podemos into a Portuguese-style government. The PSOE wants to emulate Costa in Portugal and govern alone with external support. Discover more stories on  Business Insider Spain. Pedro Sánchez begins new negotiations today to try to be sworn in before September 23, the date on which the courts are dissolved by constitutional mandate.

His first meetings, however, will not be with political parties. Yesterday the acting president of the Government communicated in a letter to the PSOE militancy that from this Thursday he is preparing to maintain contacts Middle East Phone Number List  with social agents - "feminist associations, environmentalists..." - in order to try to create a "space" for there is a socialist government as soon as possible. Sánchez's idea, as digital sources such as Público announced yesterday , is to try to seduce Unidas Podemos in this way so that Pablo Iglesias's supporters vote in favor of Sánchez's investiture without receiving any ministry in return. In this way, the PSOE seeks to try to govern alone with the support of left-wing forces and a programmatic agreement, just as the Prime Minister of Portugal, Antonio Costa, has done since 2015.



A formula that, on the other hand, does not displease some members of the Unidas Podemos parliamentary group . Just last week, Izquierda Unida opened the door to that possibility. And families within the party, such as the Catalan branch of En Comú or Podemos in Andalusia, also welcome this approach. Read more: This is the only agreement that the parties reach before August: the extras in the salaries of deputies for being on Congressional committees However, Pedro Sánchez has many challenges to be sworn in before his term ends on September 23. July 23 was the first vote in the Congress of Deputies in the first investiture session and the regulations now propose a maximum period of two months. If this is not achieved, there will be new general elections, these scheduled for next November 10.