Rajoy calls to achieve a minimal agreement in order to form Government in Spain

USPA NEWS - The acting President of the Spanish Government and candidate for re-election by the conservative Popular Party (PP), Mariano Rajoy, will begin Tuesday round of consultations to obtain support from other parties to his inauguration. Rajoy receive first minority representatives of the Lower House.

The first visit Rajoy at the Moncloa Palace, seat of the Spanish Government, will be the representative of the Canarian nationalists. In reverse order of their parliamentary representation, the PP candidate wants to meet with leaders of all parties, ending with the Socialist Party. As heard on Monday, the Federal Committee of the Socialist Party to be held on Saturday propose that the investiture of Rajoy is allowed by the socialist deputies abstaining. However, it is anticipated an internal struggle in the Federal Committee, as the Socialist secretary general, Pedro Sanchez, and his circle of closest collaborators opposes to allow the investiture of Rajoy "actively or passively", ie, not voting in favor or abstaining.

But negotiations are beginning and there is no deadline for the investiture session, so Rajoy has time to find the necessary support. His first intention is to achieve a Government agreement with the Socialist Party, since the sum of deputies from both parties would allow him to rule with guarantees of stability. If this is not possible, the second option is to win the support of the centrist Citizens and canaries and Basque nationalists, and the abstention of the Socialists.

But the nationalists do you sell expensive support. The president of the Basque regional Government, Inigo Urkullu, conditioned on Monday the support of nationalists negotiating the "Basque agenda", an improvement program that includes the final disarmament of the terrorist organization ETA in a maximum of one year and transfer the regional Government of penal powers, which allow the approach of ETA prisoners to jails in the Basque Country. Thinking about all this, Rajoy made Monday a call to come to terms quickly, "a government that can govern," for which he urged other parties to achieve at least a "minimal agreement" allowing "normal operation" in Congress.