Rajoy faces the dilemma of being a candidate or say no to the King

USPA NEWS - The secretary general of the Socialist Party, at noon, and the acting President of the Spanish Government and Conservative candidate, in the afternoon, closing Thursday's first round of consultations King Philip VI for the formation of Government in Spain.

At the moment, the Conservative candidate, Mariano Rajoy, will not leave the accounts: do not get the center party Citizens, whose president, Albert Rivera, also visit the King on Thursday, vote in favor of his investiture, nor the Socialist party abstains. The few supporters of small parties that has made so far are not sufficient to be invested. The situation has stagnated to the point that no one ruled that King completed the round of consultations without proposing any candidate.

Rajoy struggles between reject his appointment by King again, accepting the nomination but postpone the investiture debate until there is an agreement or accept a period of reflection without candidates for Prime Minister, in which political parties should strive to reach agreements. If the first day of consultations Rajoy had harvested three supports of Canaries nationalists, Asturias and Navarre, all the speakers who visited the King briefed the monarch on Wednesday they will vote against the investiture of Rajoy.

In this scenario, it is Rajoy likely that Felipe VI instruct the formation of Government, but investiture plenary should not be held up within several weeks. The timing of the candidate fix it corresponds according to the President of the Congress and everything points to plenary investiture could be postponed until late August or early September. The drawback is that the new Government must approve the State budget and the more the formation of the Cabinet is delayed, the less time will have to pass some bills that are expected in Brussels expectantly.