Feijoo’s defeat had been expected and gives acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez chance to try to form government
Conservative leader’s defeat had been expected and gives acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez chance to try to form governmentSpain’s Popular Party leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo leaves the parliament’s lower house in Madrid after failing to gain enough support to take power.
Feijoo’s failure clears the way for Sanchez to try to put together a new government. The problem is that while the acting prime minister can count on votes from his own party, from its partners in the left-wing Sumar alliance and from a handful of Basque and Catalan nationalist parties, he will also need to enlist the support of Junts, the hardline Catalan separatist party led by Carles Puigdemont.
On Thursday, Junts and the more moderate Catalan Republican Left party attempted to ramp up the pressure on the PSOE still further, saying they would not support a central government that did not “undertake to work to bring about the conditions for the holding of a referendum [on regional independence]”.
On Friday morning, Salvador Illa, the former health minister of Spain who now leads the Catalan branch of the PSOE, said the socialists would be happy to fight another general election rather than cave to Junts and the ERC’s demands.
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