Pedro Sánchez will face the second vote today in Spanish Congress
Acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will face the second vote today in Congress to be confirmed in office.
Acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will face the second vote today in Congress to be confirmed in office.
After falling short of the absolute majority he needed in Congress last Tuesday, Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez has been conducting ngotiations with Unidas Podemos to try and secure victory on the second vote today.
Of the 350 deputies in Congress, four were absent – the Catalan independence leaders who are currently in jail, political prisoners of the former conservatory government led by Mariano Rajoy.
In the end, after a day and a half of debate, Sánchez secured 124 votes in favor: 123 from his own Socialist Party (PSOE) and an extra one from the small Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC),
There were 170 votes against and 52 abstentions. Among the no votes were the conservative Popular Party (PP), center-right Citizens (Ciudadanos), far-right Vox and the Catalan Republican Left (ERC). Podemos abstained as a gesture towards the acting PM who has to give more than the very little he promised to Pablo Iglesias' party in order to get a yes vote from its deputies.